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“Happiness is fleeting, fickle, often based on our circumstances.” Aunt Gert waved a hand dismissively. “If you chase happiness, you will more often than not end up disappointed by the very nature of life. Life is hard, brutal at times, and often unfair. But following your bliss, that’s entirely different. It means facing your present reality with honesty and courage and, in the midst of it all, continuing to pursue each spark of joy, even if it is a tiny pinpoint in the darkness of your life. Do not give up. Continue to look for the light in your life—it is always present somewhere, some
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Sometimes things don’t work out the way we hoped, despite our best intentions. And when they go pear-shaped, you have to let them. You can’t keep holding on, trying to redo the past and stop the bad things from happening. They happened, and you can’t change that.
If you cling so tight to something that’s already broken, to a life and dream that can never come true, you don’t have space in your life for anything else, for the good and real plan Bs.”
“But the thing you’ll learn if you ever have children is that each one is their own person. You can’t superimpose your own vision for their future on them. You have to let them find their own way.”
She always told me that lemons clarify things; they symbolize happiness and hope.
“Trying to change the past is pointless. We can only change our future by the choices we make today.”
You just need to follow your bliss as best you can. If you follow the light, no matter how dark the circumstances, things will come out right in the end. That’s the true recipe for joy in this life. That’s the true magic of lemon drop pie.
