As you grow up, you mind may be filled with irrational thoughts and may tell you the grass is greener everywhere except your own yard. Whatever your observations of your neighbors' yards are, you should continue to cherish, water, and nurture your own lawn. When you water your own lawn, you know that this grass is green because you watered it, fertilized, it, and nurtured it. When we are on the outside looking in, looking at another person's life can appear to be so much better than it actually is. What we may not know is whether the neighbor nurture his/her own grass, whether they have sod, or whether they use a landscaper..... Using a landscaper and taking the credit for someone else's work. Appreciate what you have even if it's not the best or if it's not what you want. Work with what you have been given until you can afford to buy your heart's desires. You must put in work along the way.
As you grow, you will be fed with truths from your home and untruths by your neighbors. They can tell you anything because you're on the outside looking in. Your home will deal with truth and prepare you for your future. Your home will tell you that life will not be easy and it will consist of ups and downs. You will be told that the world and the people in it owes you nothing and that both are capable of chewing you up and spitting you out in the blink of an eye moving forward as though nothing happened. However, when you reach adulthood you will disregard the truths that you will be told and exposed to throughout your entire existence only to have the greener grass that the neighbor's have.
When you grow up, you will move away from the home you've known all your life to only ultimately move into the neighbor's home. Upon moving in, the grass is green and the sun is shining. Within the blink of an eye, the sun goes down and the storm began to come. The storm is turning the green grass brown and the sky is cloudy and gray. Cloudy days continue. You peep next door to your neighbor's yard and their grass is green. You peep in the yard you were raised in and that grass is green but it's still storming at your present yard. You are convinced that this storm will eventually pass on tomorrow, the sun will shine, and the grass will be green again. The storm continues....
Your questions to yourself begins to become: When will the sun shine again? How do I get the green grass to grow again? Do I continue to stay in this storm when I can go back to my home with green grass? Do I work hard and struggle to make this observation of green grass work? Do I build my own home, plant gress seeds, and grow my own green grass?
Everything is not always as it appears; The grass is not always greener on the other side; Trials come to make us stronger; Common sense is useful: Pride can take us out; and sometimes our parents really know what they're talking about! Doc Dee
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