Grass Is Greener

What do we mean when we say “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”?

I’m not sure what others mean when they say it, but the way that I interpret it is that it is so much easier to see the good things that are going on in your “neighbor’s” life. Sometimes we might only see the bad things that might be going on in our life, especially in times of trouble, but we don’t usually take the time to notice all of the good things that we do have going on. It is much easier to focus on the good things that others have. We don’t always see their problems and hardships. I have heard a few times that analogy that fits this pretty well. Say we all take our problems and put them in brown paper bags in the middle of the floor. We all could pick one bag, our own or someone else’s. After see what was in all of the other bags, we would most likely want our own problems back. Now this can’t work for everyone, I don’t think, but it would probably work for most people.

I tend to dwell in my problems a lot. I get down on myself for the skills, personality traits, physical capabilities and traits, etc. that I possess and beat myself up over these things. I sometimes think that it would be much better if I were like this person or that person. I need to take those times and focus on the great things that I have in my life and the things that I am good at. The only thing I can do is to try to improve on the things that I am not happy with, but not bring myself down about them. It is hard, but I hope to do it more and more each day.