I hate being around my cousin because her life is so much better than mine. She has a great job even though she never finished high school. She and her fiance have two beautiful kids between them and one on the way. She seems to have everything. I feel like I have nothing in comparison. I’d rather not even be around her but my family is so small that if I choose not to attend family events, it’s will be obvious I’m not there. I’m just sick of seeing her with green grass when all I have are weeds.
Sometimes there’s a reason that grass is so green. Maybe somebody over there is tending to it. Maybe they’re watering it, fertilizing it and keeping the neighborhood dogs from pissing all over it. The truth is that if you’re not the type to water and care for your grass, it doesn’t matter where you go because your grass will always suck.
This seems like simple case of jealousy, which is natural. Obviously, your life has it’s good points, too. You’re just not seeing them right now because you’re stuck in your feelings. You can’t help it how you feel but you can help is how you react. Are you going to use that jealousy to stew, wishing you could take your cousin’s good fortune? Or are you going to see as an example of how good things can be and use it to make some changes in your own life? My advice is to get away from that fence and concentrate on what’s going on with your own grass. What you find may really, really surprise you.
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Brilliant! You’re so right about the grass. Wherever you go, there you are. If the cousin truly has it all, it means she has been working her tail off to make it so. My suggestion is start watering, fertilizing and trimming.
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Or hire a good landscaper to help her work it out.
Yeh, fiance? Im positive after (almost) 3 children, your cousin is dying for a wedding ring that he’s not giving her. Maybe Im wrong, or maybe her life isnt perfect either…
Her life can’t be perfect because no one’s is. I hope the reader realizes that, like you pointed out, I’m sure that her cousin has things she wants to change, too.
You know, weeds are just misplaced plants and some of them may be native plants that are suppose to be there. :)
What a refreshing way to look at it. Maybe this reader’s garden isn’t full of weeds. Maybe she’s just not looking at it the right way.
Your lawn care program should be tailored to local conditions – the amount of rainfall you get, for example, and the type of soil you have.