Is the grass greener on the other side? and what is it on the other side of?

Answer 1

This is an interesting question!
Basically it is about cows viewing the grass on the other side of the fence! - and yes it looks greener and better than what they have!
I take it to mean that we as human beings are never entirely satisfied with our lot!
We all think perhaps if we had taken a different course of action just maybe we would be happier and more fulfilled!
All of us especially when we are going throgh bad patches! tend to think " I wish I had made another better decision" or perhaps said Yes sooner than No or vice versa!
But what are we really saying? - That we are feeling down in the dumps! and that life is just not treating us fairly!
"The grass is greener" - means that your life may or may not be better if you took another course of action! - but believe me it could just as well be the same if not a heck of alot worse!
So what do we do? - Well we make the most of what we have got! - My Mum had a saying which rather nicely sums it all up!
" Life is not about having all the good cards! - but its all about playing a poor hand well!"
So none of it is like Russian Roulette! - We, thank God can make choices and if they turn out to be the wrong ones we just put it all down to experience! - and hope that we don't make the same mistakes again!!!!!!! - What is on the other side? - Indecision and uncertainty! - It can only be a mirror image of this life!
Good Luck!

Answer 2

The full original phrase is "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence".

It stems from the observation that grazing animals always seem to be trying to reach the grass just outside the fence rather than in the field behind them.

The fact of the grass appearing greener has been proved scientically by James Pomerantz in a scientific article entitled "'The Grass is always Greener': An Ecological Analysis of an Old Aphorism" (1983) in which he proved that optical and perceptual laws alone will make the grass at a distance look greener to the human eye than the blades of grass perpendicular to the ground.

Answer 3

The grass isn't really greener on the other side. It just appears as such when we look at it from the grass we currently stand on. From a distance, everything looks better. Its when you get close that you recognise the imperfections.

Answer 4

Usually the grass ISN'T greener on the other side, it's disappointing

Answer 5

actually? nicely perhaps. Figuratively? No, i've got been there finished that. i presumed my worldwide could be appropriate if I have been the single element I continually had to be, I grew to become that, and then found out existence nonetheless had issues, even perhaps worst. So yeah, i can actual say, the grass ain't continually greener on the different area. Q2 you will never know till you circulate there.

Answer 6

The whole quote is "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." Is the grass actually greener? Maybe, but it ALWAYS appears to be (i.e. we always want what we don't have and undervalue what we do).

Answer 7

It certainly looks greener. But it's on the other side of a lot of hard work. Maybe I'd better walk slowly?

Answer 8

If the grass is greener on the other side, you better bet the water bill is higher over there too.

Answer 9

it looks always greener on the other side yes .....and there are cows on the other side wants to get to those green grass..

Answer 10

I've been on the other side, I'm happier here where I don't get shot at and don't have to follow orders from 19 year old officers fresh out of University. I hated the military and am much happier here as a civilian.