When Life Gives You Lemons

Don’t make lemonade

Nicole Hankey
Promptly Written
Published in
2 min readFeb 2, 2022

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Pink and orange balloons, some with happy faces, some with sad faces drawn on them
Photo by @artbyhybrid on Unsplash

I want to be happy for people. But when I see the 500th “secret to success” post, I think,

Please, shut up!

Post after post promises success as if it’s a recipe you can follow. It’s the classic American dream mentality — if I (or they/he/she) did it, you can too. So, what’s stopping you?

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