Greener Pastures

I think we've all been at a certain point in life when we've said, "Oh yeah...that grass is greener over there." And sure as anything, we graze on over, we start to nibble, and it turns out it was just spray painted. At the first rain, all that green just fades away to brown. So, we try to turn around to get to our original pasture, but Farmer Brown has built a fence in the middle of the damn night. We're stuck. Who can we blame but ourselves? But the thing is...we don't. We blame everyone BUT ourselves. We blame Farmer Brown for building that fence. We blame the painter for spray painting that beautiful green paint on the grass. We blame God for putting the grass in that pasture there in the first place. We even blame the damn cows for NOT eating the grass because then...why, we wouldn't have seen it if those damn cows would've just eaten it. But in reality, it was only us...we took the steps over to the other pasture, and we were the ones who nibbled through the night and through the rain ignoring the fading paint and Farmer Brown's hammering wanting and needing our initial hope of "the grass is greener" to be true. So now, what to do? You're walking around in dead grass surrounded by a fence. You can either try and jump the fence, walk around in the dead grass staring at what was, or you can stop looking down. Stop looking down at that dead grass and look at what other opportunities are available to you now. Look. You're in the pasture now, you might as well learn to deal with it. Are there any trees to climb? Any rose bushes to tend to? Any cows to tip? Hey...go chat up Farmer Brown...maybe he needs an egg hatcher or something.

My point is...sometimes the grass looks greener and maybe you get lucky and it really is. But for those times when you get over there and you realize that the green isn't all that green...try looking up.