The grass is always greener...or is it?

You know how they say that the grass is always greener on the other side, right? Well I think that that phrase is basically a different way of saying that folks want what they just can't have. Now, I'm not claiming that this is a unique concept that I have stumbled upon, I think actually it is fairly common knowledge for the most part. But what I would like to analyze is why people want what they can't have. The phenomena is very puzzling because I even notice it in my own life. So why is it that when our "girlfriend/boyfriend' breaks up with us we suddenly realize how much we really liked them and want them back, why is it that we have a good bench but want that great squat that someone else has, or why is it that people have a generally insatiable thirst for more "stuff"? Is it because people have an emptiness inside and feel that whatever it is that they don't have, if they get that thing, it will fill the void? I don't know, but the thing is that as Americans we are given certain unalienable rights among these being "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" and I think they nailed it when they wrote that because apart from God people will never feel satisfied or fulfilled and all they will ever have is a pursuit of happiness, but actual happiness will be just out of reach and people will forever be chasing that "green grass" just on the other side. So as I embark on another year, I will try to keep my focus that my purpose and fulfillment is not wrapped up in my successes, my have's and my have not's, but purpose is given to me because I have a relationship with the one true God.