Lemonade - Original, please

I like lemons as a fruit. Straight up, even. Or, with salt to make them even more sour. However, I would prefer not to have lemons as a situation. Though cliche, the old adage of making lemonade of lemons holds true. How does one go about making lemonade of lemons? How do you start with nothing and make something of it? I think that most of the time we take nothing and create something that is comfortable. Familiar. A rehashing. How do you create something original? This does sound redundant to me. Create something original. Original is referring to the origin or beginning of something. Create is to bring something into existence. To cause to come into being.

I suppose the conundrum is not the creation of originality, but the acceptance of something original. Unfamiliar. We can create - make new, but if it is not accepted, if it is rejected, the creation dies. Simple. The solution is to convince others to feed the creation. It's like a petting zoo, though. The children visit the zoo and beg their parents for a quarter to buy a handful of feed. They gleefully skip to the edge of the fence and feed the fluffy cloud sheep. Familiar. However, no one gleefully skips over to the tank of which you are caretaker. The beautiful, exotic Columbian Redtail Boa. She's beautiful, but unfamiliar. Sometimes the children even offer a shriek. None of the children have read a book where they count the Columbian Redtail Boas jumping the fence to aid them in their sleep. So, you and only you feed the Redtail. You and the Redtail are very lonely - a solitude you don't enjoy. You start having a show-and-tell every 3 hours to teach the children about the Redtail - where she comes from (origin), what she likes to eat (avoidance of death), and why she is so interesting to you (and why others might find her so). At the end of every show-and-tell you allow the children to pet the Redtail, showing them how she, like sheep, likes being scratched on the head. After several weeks you notice that children start visiting the Redtail and her Serpentes friends. The Redtail has an audience. The children excitedly share their newly found intelligence on the Redtail. You pour yourself a glass of lemonade and listen.