The grass is always greener blinds you from seeing what you already have
On WritingExplained.org, the phrase, “The grass is always greener on the other side” is defined as such: “When someone is not satisfied with their own lot in life and always assumes that there are better things in other places.” Sound like anyone you know? I can think of a handful people off the top of my head. Actually, on occasion, I’d group myself into that category. I think a lot of us subscribe to the notion that “the grass is always greener” as we’ve become a society who spends far too much time worried about what other people have when compared to what our own lives might be lacking. My wife and I have remained fairly confined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some might consider us overly cautious, and that’s just…