The grass is always greener on the other side.

1. One always assumes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why is this so? Is it because we always assume what we have is not enough? I guess it is the human thing to outdo our peers as the feeling of competition seeps in. If it is so, what is wrong in being a little ambitious? I don’t see anything negative in being ambitious because it instills the drive or the need to motivate oneself in order to be on the other side of the fence where greenery is eternal. This competitive ambition is in us from the time we compare our progress reports in school to see, why has the other person get to have everything our parents promised us!

We may out grow our childish tantrums but the drive to get better than others for any reason, be it materialistic or not is always there. We always want to have. Economics also deals with the wants and needs and we cover this even in political sciences. So this theory of assuming the grass is greener on the other side of the fence rings true since time immemorial.

We always look for thing we don’t have but what of the things we have? We need to have a habit of inculcating positivity and ensuring that we bring the greener side to us so that we say the grass is greener on this side always! You never know that whatever it is we have right now is the bone of contention for the others. There are always some people who look towards us to be inspired from and to learn from because according to them, the grass we have beneath our feet is greener than the emeralds worn by our neighbors!