How to “Take an L” and Bounce Back with a Lesson Learned

Carmellita
5 min readJul 7, 2022

In hip-hop culture, when you take an “L,” you’ve taken a loss. But how do we transform an “L” into a lesson instead?

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Carmellita

Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. Co-founder of http://bluelotusliving.com. BA in Speech Communication. Former ghostwriter who came back to life.