…we get what we get.
I like the expression, "It is what it is." It’s very Zen. After all, the longer I live the more I find that there is only so much in life that I can control. As much as I try to get what I want, I need to accept life on life’s terms.
We all try to be good, do what we think is right and then we are asked to deal with what we are given which may or may not be what we want.
"You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might get what you need." Wise old Lord Mick Jagger said that.
I am learning I have to give in to what life gives me.
Hello there, You Americans already have this wonderfully succinct expression which sums all this up much better than the Rolling Stone ever could:
"If you get given lemons, go make lemonade".
I've been making an awful lot of lemonade lately. ;-)