Is the grass REALLY greener?

My girlfriends and I were out to dinner discussing the topic of why everyone (including us) consider the grass to be greener.  With careers, families, travel, spouses, dogs....you name it.  I was reading this morning and came across this passage - finding it to be spot on with our discussion.

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We spend so much of our time on Earth running after or running from.  In our want of love, we chase after someone or set ourselves up as bait.  In our dreams of success we hunt after goals and hide from what we or others perceive as failure.  And non of it - none of the strategies to land job or the hiding in order to prevent being hurt - can reward us with peace or protect us from life.

We often fantasize in secret, imagining that life is better elsewhere if we could just get there.  WE often work harder in our dreams than in our life.  WE tend to do this with our want for a more satisfying relationship.  WE imagine that some where outside of the life we are living there waits a man or woman who will alleviate all our pain and all our numbness.

So we hide our dissatisfaction with the life we've created and secretly hunt for an imagined cure for what it means to be who we are.

Robert Mason says "if to hunt or hide is twin-edged madness, then faiths the courage to risk and receive.  I close my eyes and am impaled by light.....".  This shows our recourse to complacency and unhappiness is not to hunt for bigger game or to hide our deepest hurts.  Nor is it to move our inner furniture to another town or bedroom.  Our greatest chance to change our life is to close our habits of mind and to open our  hearts.