Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Making lemonade with life's lemons

There are moments when you fully understand what it means to be bigger than life – in my case it came from a moment when I witnessed (albeit through youtube) someone take the lemons that life has given him to not be sour faced about it but to actually make lemonade.

Emmanuel Kelly, a 17 year old Australian of Iraqi descent, probably faced his demons in front of a live studio audience while auditioning for 'the X-Factor' Australia.

Through the powerful words of John Lennon's 'Imagine' and his heartfelt rendition of that song he looks into the camera and tells his demons that he is bigger and stronger – and that he has not been (to borrow from Lennon) crippled inside.