When life gives you lemons

What happens when you don’t get 

What you thought you had earned or deserved? 

What’s your response? 

Do you whine a bit to your friends, 

Feel sad or discouraged; 

Lose a little momentum? 

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, 

And start all over again, believing 

 When one door slams, 

Another will surely open? 

Or do you launch a new campaign 

To overturn the results, discredit the judge, 

Or fantasize or enact a fitting revenge? 

Disappointment comes to us all: 

It’s the choices that follow 

 That make all the difference 

In how our lives play out…