"Blessed are they who remember that what they now have they once longed for."

September 12, 2018 Free Write

The grass is always greener on the other side. But for many of us, we don't even have to wander as far as our neighbor's yard, but rather think forward to hopes of greener days to come. Human beings by nature are striving creatures, never static in their pursuits and always working towards their next goal. It's how we survive. But in an increasingly competitive world of cut-throat ambition to get to the top, we've lost all meaning of what it is to live. While desperately working to get to the top, the "end goal," we have lost every moment only to realize there is no end, no final stage where every problem is solved, nothing but life, then death. We fail to recognize the reality of progress in that it never ends. Instead of searching for the future springs of blooming gardens and green grass, we need to look outside and realize that this is it, the grass, not greener, not dying, just the grass. With that mindset of acceptance, our standards are lowered from an impossible utopia and brought down to a reality we can enjoy.