Greener Grass?

5/26/16 Greener Grass?

 

We’ve all heard, and maybe used, the old saw about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence perhaps as a warning to ourselves or others, or perhaps to confirm that someone jumped the fence to find that the grass ended up being the same. This idiom’s agrarian roots harken back to cows always wanting to eat the grass in the next field, and is, of course, an analogy for a human’s typical penchant for coveting other folks’ wealth, jobs, families, spouses, houses, etc. But, really, we all know intellectually that each of those will indubitably come with their own difficulties and detractions.

I’ve modified this idiom as a reminder of to myself of why someone’s grass might be greener. This is because sometimes I need to remember that the grass is GREENEST over a septic field. It’s possible that someone’s waste sits just below the pretty surface of that lush greenery. And, I recently had another thought about this as well… Grass grows best and doesn’t get consumed by encroaching saplings and weeds when it’s mowed. We must make our meadow healthy by cutting out things that detract from it. We must cut back distractions if we want to maintain a lovely lawn of life. Where can the grass of our lives be greenest? Where we take care of it.