According to the new album by the amazing woman we know as Beyoncé, when life gives you lemons–make lemonade. But I think that sometimes when life is throwing those sour, bitter lemons at us during the worst times of our lives, or even at the best times of our lives, we should catch them and hold onto them. Bite into that lemon and tell me how different your life could be handling problems head on instead of making other things out of them, and pushing away the feelings and emotions that may come from the squirt of that lemon into your once stable life.

2016 was a year filled with super highs, super lows and so many surprising twists and turns that many of us may not have seen coming. Often in life, we let the small insignificant things pick apart at us for longer than necessary. Growing up seems to be a part of life where you just watch people around you pass away, get sick, or walk out of your life. 2016 was a year of loss but how much different could the years to come be.

Let’s speed race into 2017, new president, changed country, different rules, different lives, differences overall. How could anyone possibly be happy in a country where there are so many diplomatic differences and in many cases, the rules made by top leaders are of no benefit for a large majority of the country. But what if we, as human beings started looking at things as not a life full of loss but rather possibility and positivity.

Grab the lemons and squeeze them until all the juice is out. Grab the problems that life, that God, throws at you and show them and Him that you don’t need that squirt, that push, that you’re strong enough, good enough, you’re alive--you can overcome anything.

To sum up the words of a few inspirational people; "You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there is nobody listening, and live like it is heaven on Earth". "Be the change you want to see in the world because imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring". (William Purkey, Gandhi, Marilyn Monroe)