‘The grass always looks greener on the other side.’
Early this morning I was driving in my car. The radio station I was listening to at that moment is having a seventies week. As they were playing seventies songs, memories of my childhood popped up. Apart from the images of the obnoxious ever-present step father I like to reminisce about those days.
Days of a life with almost nothing to worry about… No worries about people ridiculing themselves while they are talking negative about you behind your back. Sometimes I wonder when all that changed. It feels like at some point someone took a needle and popped it in the dream I was living in. I want to feel again how I felt before the needle came, but of course…. I know better. At this moment it looks like this will remain a dream.
As I grew up as a teenager I remember I used to be envious of boys who were dating the good looking girls. I wanted to be like them. I wanted their life. Later on I watched friends how they became successful in whatever they did. I wondered what it was like to be them.
One of the good things of life is that it has one particular thing in store for all of us. What’s great about that is that you don’t have to be rich, successful or poor. It is called experience…. Life experience! What I learned from that is that I have to accept and appreciate myself the way I am! Accept that I create the life I want to live. If I do what I am passionate about, it doesn’t matter anymore if : ‘the grass is greener on the other side.’ No… it will be like Steve’s comment to this post: ‘pretty much the same color everywhere’. Plus as an extra bonus to that… I might also get a little bit of those ‘happy’ feelings of my childhood back.
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