Are you still optimistic even though life has given you a lemon?

I have had many ups and downs in life. At one point I was making about $6,000 a month in marketing. Then one of the companies went under, the other changed it's marketing plan and canned my upline for reasons I've always thought were foolish. On top of that my father became ill with Multiple Myeloma and a friend 20 years younger than me got into trouble and went to prison while just seventeen. This happened many years ago. I went back to work although I did not want to, my father passed away after a year of being ill, and my friend eventually got out of prison although he has been through some tough times such as a rough divorce and twice a male type of cancer which strikes the young. Yet, I try to persevere and I do believe that God has a greater purpose for me and that my ship is just waiting to come in. Like they say "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Or "If life is a bowl of cherries, what are you doing in the pits?"

I think that you have a very good attitude. I share that with you. Life has been not so great since I can remember BUT someday I will get my just deserved, so will you. I just dont think life would be any better having a pity party everyday. I do see people like that and I think "how sad" for them. I just think you have to be optimistic or your going to be much more unhappy than you already might be.

While being skeptical can be a healthy way to avoid getting taken advantage of, being pessimistic - that is, always assuming the worst - can have major negative consequences on your life.Just because you've experienced pain or disappointment in the past does not guarantee that it's all you'll experience in the future. There were many things in your past that you couldn't control, and everybody comes across unfortunate circumstances at some point in their lives - you're no exception. But there are also many things in life we can control to one degree or another, and therein lies the possibility of change.

I try to be but not usually.

Life is challenging! I believe that FAILURE IS THE MOTHER OF SUCCESS. Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get. So i prefer to be optimistic even though life dealt me a hard hand. All will be better!

I've had my ups and downs, but I try to be optimistic. I've always been thought that no matter how bad things or for you, there is someone in worse shape.

I try my best to be optimistic... But at times my best attempts fail... for the most part things work out better, or was a challenge I learned from... But, the last few years that challenge has been my family... I have formed a pure love/hate relationship with them... I love them cause they do love me and care for me, but I hate them because they hold me back from getting a job, and a real life.... and now that the economy has gone downhill... I feel really depressed to see millions of people all losing their jobs, thier homes and cars... and knowing that thousands of them been forced into the similar situation I am in.. Suddenly no one will hire them... I keep talking about new technologies, and new businesses, and sharing millionares and billionare stories... and trying to encourage others to have hope.. But its really hard... when I am barely hanging onto that hope myself. I find I either tend to be to enthusiastic and optimistic at times... and at other times so pessismistic that people are not looking forward to even saying a hello... I don't ever want to be that way... But, I am... Want to buy my lemons? .... I prefer to bury the lemon.. then over time water it.. and hopefully as time passes the lemon grows into a big lemon tree :d ... Then I can sell those lemons.. as success stories later on :D ... OR this is what I went through.. you are going through a hard time.. hang in there... You can make it through too. - DNatureofDTrain

I am not as optimistic as I once was. It has been a difficult 12 months for me. I haven't given up on life yet, but it's more of a chore for me to remain positive. I am hoping that things will start to get better soon.

I guess I receive a lot of lemons in life; who doesn't? Still, I am learning to turn them into something far more positive! I am trying to adopt a positive attitude on a daily basis now and I find that this really helps me. I always have hope for the future! As long as you have breath in your body then there's always a chance that you can change things! I guess it's a bit of action here, a bit of action there and you will really find things starting to change for the better. Good luck. I hope that you start receiving more oranges as opposed to lemons! Andrew

There is a saying that when life throws you a lemon ,make lemonade.This statement is really saying that you should be resourceful and dteremined to make the most of every bad situation.It speaks to the fact that sometimes a good situation is wrapped in an unattractive package and it is how we unwrap it that we obtain benefit from it.Consequently not folding under pressure and persisting with hard work is definitely away to overcome bad situations

I have already set my goals in life. Because of this, I take the long view, and I am not easily discouraged. I have had a lot of lemons in my life, but mixed with them were sweeter fruits which I also savored. Although not fully enjoyable and satisfactory, I consider the hard hand as full of challenge and surprises, a chance to temper myself for tougher times and tasks ahead.

Well our life is like a valley,we have ups and downs in life.The day we stop being optimistic its a full stop in our lives.So no matter what we have to hope and work for the best.Yes at times we do feel bad and depressed but its all in mind.We have to be strong enough to overcome the challenges in life and move ahead.

I try to always find the silver lining in things even if its just a sliver that can be overlooked, because otherwise I'd go crazy thinking about the "what ifs", and I do that easily enough as it is I don't need help lol. Sometimes I find a positive and sometimes the "what ifs" turn a situation that could have been great into something really bad that I don't want to relive or think about.

I would like to answer to this question with this one quote: "WHEN life gives You LEMONS- find somebody who HAS vodka, and MAKE A PARTY!". It means that I tend to pass my LEMONS quickly and without huge grief. I might even ignore them. Anyway: we don`t have all bad days: `sometimes` there are GOODY ones, right? So I would like to look forward more to those GOODY ones rather than grief over-and-over again the bad ones.

I'm always optimistic. Of course, I had some really bad and hard points of my life, but at the end I always found a way out of it. I just keep thinking that eventually good things will happen. Because I believe good things happen, just like bad happen too.