So what if the Grass is Greener at the other side?

 

So what if the Grass is Greener at the other side?

How many zillion times have we heard from every nook that the grass seems greener at the other side of the fence? You yourself might have uttered it countless times I guess. But is it so? Absolutely yes, both figuratively and literally. But then again, if indeed grass is greener at that other side, dig up, drill down if that matters in the first place?

These days when everything could be faked, God knows if that greener grass over there isn't fake?

Whoever guaranteed our very own grass to be as green as we want it to be? Did anyone promise you a ‘rose garden’? Who else falsely raised your expectations that you would end up with a perfect partner in life simply because you always dreamt of a perfect one?

At workplaces, how many times have we seen butterflies, hopping from one job to another, changing jobs as frequent as changing his own clothes? And sometimes even taking detours by switching career paths? Or taking a few steps back, during our school days, how often have we seen and heard [don’t look too far] students switching course and academic paths?

Fast forward to this global pandemic. Prior to this, everyone hoped and dreamt to work from home. These days, I heard quite often how miserable their life is the past six months for multifarious reasons. Because they missed working onsite in office. Because they missed their friends. Because they missed hanging out.

Hell no. When will we ever get saturated? When can we stop being insatiable? True, as Mariano Ngan in his eBook hit the nail on its head when he wrote: ‘And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.’ But, I don’t want to etch this on stone to become our mission and vision. Otherwise, we are doomed to fail in life.

The revered Dalai Lama said it all: ‘Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by the vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

When can we be at peace? It’s never a rocket science to be comfortably thankful with what we are, where we are, with whom we’re with and wherever our workplace maybe.