Hello, friends….
“I’m quitting! I have to change job!” I can hear most people say that nowadays. (I often hear myself saying that too!) But where should you go? Where should you seek for greener pasture? Are you making the right decision by just quitting? Is the temporary consolation you get from escaping the problem, enough to make you resort to drastic move? Maybe, before you make any drastic change, think deeply…. I’m not saying though, that you shouldn’t take the risk (In fact, I admire people who would go beyond pursuing their passion!)… I just want you to be more aware of the consequence of your decision. Because once, you’ve made your decision, you can’t go back and punish yourself with so much regrets!
Be smart enough where to find the greener grass. Who knows, it’s just right in your own fence. But if the time comes that you really feel that you don’t belong to where you are and there’s nothing you can do to water your grass, then by all means…take the plunge and start searching your greener pasture…
Keep dreaming…
Chille:)
Sometimes we think that the only way to realize our goals and dreams is to pin our hopes on the other side of the fence. We don’t appreciate the beauty and the freshness of our own backyard because we think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Rather than nurturing our own meadow, we nurture the grass not under our stewardship. What we don’t know then, what seems to be greener grass doesn’t always look as green as it seems, neither would it be all the time. Though you may find the grass really greener on the other side, you still have to mow it when you get there.
Nowadays, try asking people who have abandoned their jobs, ”why they search for something else?” I bet, at least one out of ten would say, “I am searching for a greener pasture.” Oh? Where? Does the place where the grass is really greener exist?
In reality, it often does not, nor does it have to be. We can’t find it anywhere because it resides in us. If we want to see better things or work better jobs or find a place where the grass could be greener on our side of the fence, then we have to decide to make it so. If we want to grow our own meadow, then we have to make a healthy environment and nurture it. We should decide that we could make a difference in making our environment the best that it can possibly be.
We all want the grass to be greener but we can make the grass greener on our side without searching for somewhere else. We don’t need to search for greener pasture at the other side of the fence, we only have to nurture our own. It’s a matter of attitude and action. Our attitude, our conscious decision, is that our side of the fence is, or at least can be, greener than the other side. If we assume accountability for our own meadow and operate with the attitude that we can make a difference, we’ll work proactively to make our environment the best that it can possibly be. But if we are preoccupied with our own scarcities and deficiencies and we don’t recognize the great abundance that we have, we will be looking to other, seemingly greener, pastures for solutions and happiness.
If you have green grasses at your lawn, try to observe it. Isn’t it true that green grass sprout beautifully each time rainy season comes, while summer heat withers the grass if you don’t water it regularly? Life is like that, too. There are times we are experiencing great moments of joy; other times we are blown up with much sorrow. Life goes though cycles of change and thus, we should continually adapt to become fluid; and like any other cycle, things have a way of repeating themselves over and over, so you must be ready.
But one thing is certain about life. Life is not an easy road, right? Every job or role is fraught with problems and challenges. Every decision is braced with risks and uncertainties. Every action is buckled with pressures and responsibilities. However, from a larger perspective, consider this as a blessing. As they say, “of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
The good news is…turning problems into solutions and opportunities, or even learning to cope, makes a person wiser, healthier, and more productive. A certain amount of opposition helps and learning to overcome such opposition gives a person more confidence and security, moves him toward his potential, and gives him a greater sense of achievement, purpose, and worth.
I think, there is no such thing as bad or worst job, either. But there is such thing as bad mood or bad attitude, right? Our work becomes only worst because we allow it to be one. We allow our bad mood to work on us. Or work becomes an agony to us because we let others antagonize us and ruin our perspective. You see, work becomes only work, the moment you lose your magical play in doing it. But try to play with it, appreciate every moment of it, savor it and you will love it.
So if the time of your life comes that you have to search for a greener pasture...think again “where the grass is really greener?” But if you think you have exhausted everything you got to water your grass, yet still found your fence a little dry and barren, then maybe…just maybe…you need to search somewhere else. Just keep in mind though, “the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence, it’s greenest only where it’s watered.” So before searching for greener pasture, go home, water your grass first.
from Spice & Chills Strongbox…2003 ed. Vol. 5 June 2003
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