1234bonus living (away) sent this in using the SOTM Flickr group. She wrote: “My mother used to say this to me when I was a child and didn't want to walk to the bus stop in the rain. She didn't particularly mean it nicely - stop being a baby and get out the door.

“As I got older, this expression took on more meaning. It began to have a positive connotation ~ I was strong and could handle all the challenges that life threw at me. When adversity hit, I began to think, 'You're not sugar, you won't melt.'

"And I didn't. I didn't melt when faced with the serious illness of one of my children, I didn't melt with the death of my father when I was 23, I didn't melt when a friend committed suicide.

“I'm not sugar. I won't melt.”