The Grass Beneath My Feet

Some say that the grass is always greener on the other side. Others say the grass only "looks" greener on the other side. But if you're like me, you sometimes painfully admit that the grass is really only as green as you care to make it.

I guess that's one of the many keys to happiness in life--to learn the art of keeping your grass green even when you feel surrounded by an ocean of withering brown. I've heard on many occasions that our lives are what we make of it. I still have a hard time believing that 100%. I'd rather blame a lot of things on circumstance or fate-that are beyond our control. It's a coping mechanism I suppose.

I ended 2009 with many some sadness, but also with gladness that the year was finally over and time to start anew! I reflected on New Year day some of the things that were basically "brown" on my side...the hospital visits, lost friendships, misunderstandings, the wishful hopes, and petty annoyances. Then I tried to look at the "greener" side of things, and well, it seemed the brown side kept moving over and I couldn't escape it. I felt like I always am surrounded by a brown field and I'm sick of it.

But I'm gonna make every effort to make it to the other side..the greener side this year and stay green!

Sometimes the grass truly is greener on the other side. And when we do get to that "other" side, our eyes are opened and our paradigm of the world changed forever. The year 1991 It was the greatest time of my life. I sometimes wish that I could leave the circumstance I find myself in now and run in greener fields like I did 19 years ago. But then again, life is mostly what we make of it. So watch were our feet are.