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Seeing Your Own Grass as Greener

I used to have a front yard big enough to host a minor league baseball game—four acres, eighty-something pine trees, and more “problem areas” than a middle-school algebra book. Exposed roots, bare patches, places where grass had never grown and never would. Weeds that seemed to be holding union meetings. Every flaw you can imagine in a lawn, I had on display.

While mowing, the whole thing looked hopeless. Up close, all I could see were the imperfections. But when I finished and sat on the porch sipping an ice cold Diet Mountain Dew, something interesting happened: it looked… pretty good. Not perfect. Not magazine-worthy. But good.

After a few weeks of this I realized I had accidentally rediscovered the truth behind the old saying, “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” It’s not really about lawns. It’s about perspective.

When you’re right on top of something, you see every flaw.

Step to the side—even just a little—and those same flaws fade into the larger picture.

That’s when I came up with my own updated version of the adage:

If you bend over far enough and look sideways, even your own grass looks greener.

The famous phrase describes reality.

My version describes how to change the way reality affects you.

You may not be able to fix every bare spot in your life, but you can absolutely change how you look at them. And since every action begins first as a thought, improved thinking leads to improved actions—and far better reactions.

Mistakes Are the Weedy Patches

I’ve made mistakes. Big ones. The kind that leave marks, not just on your own life but on people you care about. Those patches can follow you for years if you let them. Like that ugly spot in the yard, you start to believe nothing good can grow there.

But here’s the truth: you don’t heal a wound by staring at it all day.

If you get low enough—humbled, like in prayer, or confession even—and look sideways, you’ll notice something unexpected: there’s more green than brown. More growth than decay. More life than failure. The weedy patches are part of the lawn, sure, but they aren’t the whole lawn. Marcus Aurelius said, “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Strength doesn’t come from the absence of mistakes.

It comes from refusing to let them define the landscape.

What You Lack Shows Up Like Those Shady Spots Where Nothing Grows

Modern life is a nonstop chant of “You don’t have enough” and “You aren’t enough.” Entire industries profit from convincing you that your identity is incomplete without whatever miracle product they’re selling this week. Half the ailments people claim to suffer from didn’t exist until after the pharmaceutical commercial aired.

If you focus on what you lack, envy grows like kudzu in the southern summer.

Resentment follows, usually with company.

It’s no wonder contentment feels like an endangered virtue.

Here’s the counter-move:

Focus on what is growing.

Cultivate the good.

Practice gratitude, not as a cliché but as an intentional daily discipline.

Strive for your dreams, yes.

Push yourself, yes.

But accept “enough” as enough. As Epicurus put it, “Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”

Your joy will depend far less on what you have, and far more on what you decide to appreciate.

Perspective Is the Secret

If you can’t get distance, get low.

If you can’t change the circumstances, change the angle.

If the flaws are too glaring up close, take a step back.

Your lawn—including the bare spots, the weeds, the shade, the roots—is still yours. And with the right perspective, you’ll realize it’s not just tolerable. It’s beautiful, in the quiet, imperfect way all real lives are.

Contentment isn’t found by fixing everything.

It’s found by seeing it properly.

There’s no better place to be.

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