Why The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side

by Evelyne Brink

Do you know why the grass is always greener on the other side? Because there is more rain! Think about it: you can’t have one without the other. But we do like to delete the second part of the equation… This is a very typical human behaviour. Each second we receive 2 million bits of information and can process only 7±2. What we process depends on our filters. The way we are set to look at the world, our beliefs, personality, our meta programs we run etc. What we call reality is therefore only a very limited amount of what is really going on.

The question is now: what is it that you want to pick up from “reality”?

We can’t take it all, just as we are not designed to look straight into the sun. So why is it that we think others have it better? What’s behind this is the thought that we should have something else than we do (i.e. more) and we should be somewhere else than we are.

Admittedly, being content is not something we are taught in school. Many of us are set up to believe that whatever we have and are right now is not good enough. Now, sometimes this rings true. Maybe where you are doesn’t suffice. I don’t want to encourage anybody to simply turn the belief around and just accept everything even if it’s not what they wanted. Let’s get real:
If you are good where you are, that’s great. If you are not, move!

The question we get to again and again is this: WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT? Go after that and lie down in the grass, enjoy the lush soft green, the daisies and the wind blowing on your face and let yourself go….

Please beware of excrements. You will find that in grass, too.

Regardless of its shade of green.

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