Over the past few weeks, I wished two people "greener pastures". They told me that they would be leaving our country and moving on with life somewhere else. I suppose subliminally, the story "Three Billy Goats Gruff" stuck with me. I suppose "..as told by Ginger".. "someone once told me the grass is much greener on the other side" stuck with me also considering that this has replaced a customary farewell greeting in my vocabulary.
Either way, any who and onwards...*clears throat discretely*
No matter where we stand the grass always seems greener somewhere else. Heaven is above us after all. The best bounty remains untouchable till death so there is so much to traverse before we ever get to the 'greenest'.
I felt for a while that I was on greener pastures. The world around me was getting green, getting lush. Till about a few minutes ago, when the natural introspection began and I realized that my inner world was getting dim. My outside world was flourishing from my inside world but my inside world was paying for it. Like a potted plant, you know.I feel like I had lots of water and nutrients in my soil/soul and so my outside world was blossoming but I haven't quite tended to my soil in a while and well, I'm just glad that my leaves haven't begun to wither.
I thought that I was on greener pastures and really, I am. I am in a better place than where I was but a better place than where I am now lays before me and I aspire to be there. I use to be bitter and angry about certain occurrences in my life. This move to greener pastures made me think that I had ARRIVED in some sense.That bitterness and anger were beneath me and behind me as I moved up. But considering that another opportunity for self development presents itself i.e {new} greener pastures, I realize that though I am less bitter and less angry , I am STILL bitter and still angry about things I thought I let go. Its like ripping a plant yet still leaving the roots. Its not really gone. It is just out of sight and presumably out of mind but it is not gone.
There is so much work to do , it seems the journey never ends. The people of my year are out of college now. We're off perusing higher learning and learning life's lessons.
The present lesson though?
You are never really finished. Even when you are at a good place, you could be doing better and I am not trying to kick contentment out the window, it actually belongs at your side. I got to this new place. It was a good place, a much place than where I had been but only a fraction of where I should be.
There will always be greener pastures but the grass is not always greener...on the other side.
Soulfully Stella.
Either way, any who and onwards...*clears throat discretely*
No matter where we stand the grass always seems greener somewhere else. Heaven is above us after all. The best bounty remains untouchable till death so there is so much to traverse before we ever get to the 'greenest'.
I felt for a while that I was on greener pastures. The world around me was getting green, getting lush. Till about a few minutes ago, when the natural introspection began and I realized that my inner world was getting dim. My outside world was flourishing from my inside world but my inside world was paying for it. Like a potted plant, you know.I feel like I had lots of water and nutrients in my soil/soul and so my outside world was blossoming but I haven't quite tended to my soil in a while and well, I'm just glad that my leaves haven't begun to wither.
I thought that I was on greener pastures and really, I am. I am in a better place than where I was but a better place than where I am now lays before me and I aspire to be there. I use to be bitter and angry about certain occurrences in my life. This move to greener pastures made me think that I had ARRIVED in some sense.That bitterness and anger were beneath me and behind me as I moved up. But considering that another opportunity for self development presents itself i.e {new} greener pastures, I realize that though I am less bitter and less angry , I am STILL bitter and still angry about things I thought I let go. Its like ripping a plant yet still leaving the roots. Its not really gone. It is just out of sight and presumably out of mind but it is not gone.
There is so much work to do , it seems the journey never ends. The people of my year are out of college now. We're off perusing higher learning and learning life's lessons.
The present lesson though?
You are never really finished. Even when you are at a good place, you could be doing better and I am not trying to kick contentment out the window, it actually belongs at your side. I got to this new place. It was a good place, a much place than where I had been but only a fraction of where I should be.
Food for thought.
Sometimes we're moving rapidly towards what we deem as progress but it isn't really progress at all.There will always be greener pastures but the grass is not always greener...on the other side.
Soulfully Stella.
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