🌱 Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side?
Chasing perfect doesn’t work and how to grow where you stand.
The phrase comes from a 1924 American song, “The Grass Is Always Greener in the Other Fellow’s Yard,” by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting.
The grass is always greener
In the other fellow’s yard.
The little row
We have to hoe
Oh boy, that’s hard.
But if we all could wear
Green glasses now,
It wouldn’t be so hard
To see how green the grass is
In our own backyard.
The message is simple: we underestimate what we already have, because we’re too busy peeking over the fence.
This week, I’m starting a new job. It’s a step forward for my career (I hope!), and yet, like any change, it brings that familiar question - was what I had before really that bad?
And probably for you, like it is for me, the answer is NO, it was not.
The move wasn’t about escaping. It was about evolving, taking your life to the next level.
Still, the temptation is always there - to believe someone else has it better. That there’s a perfect role, a perfect city, a perfect life waiting somewhere out there.
But perfection is a mirage. Growth starts when we stop chasing greener pastures and start tending to the one we’re standing on.
Because maybe the real question isn’t about where the greenest grass is.
Maybe it’s: Who are you becoming while you water it?
Onto the new adventure!
Piotr