When life throws you lemons make it lemonade
Introduction

A. Success is raised on the edifice of adversity

1. Lemons thrown by life multiply the level of individual’s motivation; how Adolf Hitler built his nation in the face of lemons thrown on him by enemies. Nelson Mandela took the lemons of racial adversities and made the sweet lemonade, the end to the policy of racial apartheid.

2. Accomplishment of the French revolution was a response to the adversities; when upper class threw lemons on the working class and denied them their due rights they made lemonade; they united themselves and revolutionized against them.
B. All marvelous achievements of man was the response to lemons of life
1. The idea of peace was emerged from the rubbles of bloody wars
2. The nations united for peace only after undergoing the horrors of the fragmentation.
3. The nationalism was the retort to the lemons of racial, political and religious oppression.


c. How individuals and society make the lemonade of lemons?
1. The discriminations and differences are responded with the solidarity of a victimized group.
2. Indifference of society often results in a passion to work for equality of rights and opportunities; movements of women empowerment.
3. The increased floods often result in more dams, thus providing more water in much needed time.
D. Making lemonade of lemons ensures the success after setbacks; it is turning even misfortunes to account. It is the spirit of the King Robert Bruce. It is optimism that the adversities make the actions more consolidated, the will more powerful and the courage indomitable.
E. The spirit of making lemonade of lemons distinguishes the winner from the vanquished.
F. World admires and remembers the champions of making lemonade of lemons

Introduction
Great are those who turn their misfortunes to account; history remembers them in golden words and people regards them their heroes. Making lemonade of lemons is a distinguishing feature of successful people of history and contemporary world. Reality testifies that every optimistic nation used the lemons of oppression and discrimination to make her more united, motivated and civilized. The Narration of the world’s success in different fields shows that lemonade was not made unless lemons were thrown upon; the concept of collective peace could not take roots if nations had not suffered the lemons of wars and disintegration. The individuals’ and collective success of humans in achieving democracy, human rights and respect for women all are the results of adversities of despotism, human suffering and inequality. The spirit of making lemonade unties the knot of success in difficulties; it motivates people and society to fight lemons and make their lemonade. This motivation makes the actions intensive and the spirit infallible.


The strength of a response is defined by the intensity of the action inciting response. The relentless efforts of success are motivated by the greater oppression of adversities. Had the treaty of Versailles not so coercing, the Hitler would not be successful in uniting Germans and developing them to a point where they became a threat to the others. Regardless of the Hitler’s desire for power, the industrial development plans pursued and jobs opportunities created by him were no doubt tremendous. He, while motivated with the spirit of responding to the lemons of allied powers, built his nation from the ashes of war and defeat.


The history has many heroes making lemonade of lemons; Nelson Mandela is one among them. The racial hatred and violence to which his nation was subjected were used by him to bring world the notion of respect for all humanity, irrespective of color and creed. Nelson Mandela worked in a way that not only black were recognized equal citizens of South Africa but he himself was respected as a national hero of black and whites alike. The great national success is always raised on the edifice of adversity.


The existence of lemons makes the nations and communities united and successful. When the upper class of France denied sharing the losses of war and the entire burden was placed on the working class, they made lemonade and retorted so vehemently that the hegemony of upper class ended forever. The French revolution would not have realized if the dominant class had not thrown lemons of oppression upon them. The lemons of adversity raised the emotions of the working class and banded them together on a single cause, the cause of alleviation of their problems. The union formed to check the lemons, resulted in the overthrow of a system of discrimination. The success of general masses was a firm response to the adversities.


No extraordinary responses can take place without extraordinary circumstances; the world peace was not a known idea before the bloodshed and material losses of the world war one and two. The notion of peace emerged from the rubbles of bloody wars. The disasters brought by the world wars confronted nations with the problem of survival. The peace, an extraordinary idea in an anarchic world, took roots when wars delivered ashes, deaths of millions and the billions dollar loss to infrastructure. The desire for the restoration of world peace and efforts for the establishment of a structure for maintaining peace could not have possible without the lemons of bloody wars.


Concerted efforts for peace were something new to the world. The divisions among nations could not have accepted this idea, but the lemons of wars, resulted from disintegration of nations, forced nations to think about unity. The nations, including the belligerent ones, joined hands to establish an organization. The birth of the United Nations was a response to the sufferings of fragmentation. The allied as well as the axis powers agreed to enter into an agreement of collective security. The ratification of the UN charter testifies the world that this unity could not have possible without the experience of losses from disintegration.


The lemons of sufferings most often result in wonderful response; the nations did not realize the concept of nationalism, the feeling of common sufferings and loss, unless they were exposed to extreme sufferings. The common sufferings suffered by the Germans made them united against all the opponents. It was not until the Muslims were denied their rights and their identity was crushed that they united as a nation. Two nations theory was a retort to the lemons of the discrimination, religious, social and political. The cumulative effect of these lemons resulted in the creation of Pakistan, which was the sweet lemonade of freedom.


When a group is not integrated with the national progress and denied its due rights, it unites. When the people of Sub Continent were not given jobs and were humiliated for their being uneducated, they responded with a movement of unity. Hindu and Muslim scholars, alike, emphasized the importance of social unity and education, the discrimination was responded with the establishment of Congress and Muslim League, the forums motivated for the welfare of their people. The victims of bias made the lemonade of lemons and started work for promoting education and awareness among the victimized that resulted in the end of foreign rule.

When the society becomes indifferent to the rights of a group within society, then the people of the group join hands to make lemonade of the lemons. The rule of self help and independent struggle for rights always takes place as a response to the indifference of society. The women movement, in the Pakistan and throughout the world, is a manifestation of this fact. The effort to get the right to vote, access to jobs and opportunities, access to public office and policy making apparatus , all the efforts were a response to the negation of these rights. If the lemons of indifference were not so harsh, women would not have come in field for empowerment. Today, the media, NGOs and even the UN struggle for women rights are attributed to the united effort of the women of the whole world. Women did not submit themselves to the lemons instead made their lemonade.

The idea of making lemonade is helpful in every field of life. Misfortune is often turned to account by people. The more rain results in more floods, which often leads to the construction of more dams in the catchment area. The lemons of floods are utilized to store water. The stored water is often used to make fertile even the desert areas. Pakistan, by using the water of floods, can make the desert areas of Baluchistan a fertile and growing area. Nation of USA is already making the lemonade of excessive water for cultivating its deserts and unproductive lands. Lemons of misfortunes always bring motivation for change and progress.


The motivation for change creates enthusiasm among people to fight the challenges. It is the spirit of making lemonade of lemons that ensures the success after setbacks. The king Robert Bruce manipulated his number of defeats to stir spirit of success in his defeated army. The optimistic spirit of Bruce got him again the power of Scotland. The optimism in face of setbacks made nations developed; the china had a large population and it was difficult for such a poor country to provide for such a large population. But they made lemonade of the lemons of large population and used the man power for working in factories and fields. The more the people were there, the more was their working output. This transformed the china from a poor nation to a world power. The people were not treated as the burden but were used for the development and the lemonade was sweet, the development and respect in the world.

The development of china shows that only the spirit of making lemonade of lemons distinguishes the winners from the losers. The misfortunes may create disappointment but it is the differentiated quality of winners that they stay in the field to manipulate the events for their success while others flee. The success of every individual and nation is an evidence to this fact; the courage and struggle of Quaid is a manifestation that how he made a lemonade of the British and Hindu controversies. Accomplished people always used the adversities of fate for making the things brighter and better. The success of the Den Xiaoping ‘s policies made it clear that he did not submit to the problems of large population instead used it for economic success.


Heroes of the history are those who fought the challenges and succeeded in overcoming them. World does not admire the people who were defeated by the circumstances but admire those who turned the lemons of misfortunes in establishment of peace and progress. The Martin Luther manipulated the lemons of discriminations and liberated the US nation from despotism and foreign rule. He made USA a power. The golden are regarded the names of those who make the lemonade of oppression and deliver from anarchy the nations united and developed. The names of Nelson Mandela, Quaid e Azam, Gandhi and Mao ze Dong would be remembered by the world for their peaceful struggles of making lemonade of lemons thrown upon their nations. Nothing makes a person more respectable than his courage of making lemonade of lemons.

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