The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side

"But, the grass ain't always greener on the other side; it's green where you water it."

I was listening to Justin Bieber’s song ‘As long as you love me’ (don’t judge) and every time I hear it.. ok it may be on a playlist that only has 5 songs that keep repeating..this line makes me think.

Its true. The grass may be greener on the other side, but what if that is because the other side takes care of their grass. It’s easy to have envy for nice things, ‘better’ situations, relationships etc when you compare it to yourself. No one thinks about why the other side looks greener. The other side was cultured and groomed to be beautiful and healthy, ie. Green. No one thinks about how it got that way… hard work, open communication, the catalyst that caused the changes, or sometimes just plain dumb luck. Every single person wants the easy fix, switching lawns. No one wants to do the work to get the green grass. Its not something that can be fixed overnight. Complaining about your brown grass or wistfully wanting the green one without being willing to put in the work to tend your grass is easy. Turning brown grass into green grass is the challenge. Nothing worth having comes instantly. Everything is appreciated more if it took effort to obtain. Then not only do you finally have enviable green grass, you have pride from having turned it from brown to green yourself. The grass itself can stand for anything in your life. Plus the grass may be green in the front and brown in the back where no one sees it. Or the grass may be 90% weeds or infested with moles. Its not your grass. You don’t know how it got that way, or if its green everywhere, or if there are underlying problems.

Stop envying the grass on the other side. Work on your own grass.

I can’t believe this came from a Beiber/Rap song… and I spent 15 minutes writing about proverbial grass.