I’ve had some wise counsel recently. The old saying “The grass is always greener” adage was brought up at a GNO. (For any newbies that’s “Girls Night Out.)
Yes, we do more than just ogle the men around us at GNO. We talk. A lot. About everything. But mostly we enjoy an evening that is about us and not YOU or THEM or WORK or the many, many plates we have spinning simultaneously in the air. Those plates only exist in the abstract as a mild subject of conversation during GNO.
So the adage was brought out as a cautionary flag and as usual I picture it. A nice small pasture with a fence and beyond the fence… very interesting areas. I realize the true caution of the adage is that if you leave your fenced pasture you are still in a fenced area… just the opposite side of the fence.
My answer to the wise counsel… “Well, if you never put up any fences then you wouldn’t see the grass as greener because ALL the grass would be yours.”
Eithne’s dry response… “Ah, free range Heather.”
Brilliant!