Everyone goes around saying "the grass is greener on the other side".
I am here to say that I have found this statement to be completely FALSE. If anything what appears to be greener from the outside is often filled with dark secrets, a good "face" and problems that cannot be seen at the surface.
For example, you see a cute couple that are so loving and perfect together that it makes most people sick to their stomach. What we do not see is that once that same "cute" couple is behind closed doors they yell and scream at each other. Everything one does gets on the other one's nerves and that perfect picture we see in public is thrown out the window. No one would possibly believe the way this couple's relationship really is unless they see it for themselves.
Or you leave what you think is a miserable job to go to this great new wonderful company. Until you get there and see what the staff and company is like once you make it past the smiling face "How can we help you" exterior. You find out that the employees hate being there, don't like their boss and have nothing good to say about the company.
I have been apart of my second example. I left a job that I thought was just terrible and no one appreciated what I did so I was going to go somewhere I would be appreciated for my hard work. After being there for a little bit the smiling faces went away and so did the positive attitude everyone seemed to exude. It is a scary work situation to be in. I found that once one person fell off the "Go Get Em" wagon the other employees fell off behind them at a rapid speed. Every day was miserable and the sun was never shining in their world.
Around this type of attitude it is easy to think that the grass is greener on the other side. But everyone, every organization or group has their problems. Some hide these problems better than others.
So just when you think I will go dip my toe in this other fountain... know all the details.
It can be a cold, dark land that you enter.
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