What if this is as good as it gets?
Ever heard the saying ”The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence” ? the most people have, and for those who haven’t, it refers to the fact that we as people often tend to like what other people have more than what we have. We often think that when we have something and we grow bored of it, it can always be better, but how would you know that it isn’t just you who is a bit too picky on what you have? Ask your self, am I being fair to the fact that there might not be better? And weather or not you answer truthfully you might not ever encounter but you know that you tried.
“What if this is as good as it gets?” was a line that I first heard in a movie called As god as it gets. Where a time in the movie the main character named Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson, sits down and says to a group of depressed psychiatric patients “What if this is as good as it gets?” I don’t mean to ask you this question just so you can go as a group of depressed psychiatric patients and then ask them, but in a way we rise to the level where we who are not under this level of illness will say, why does this concern us? And if you haven’t noticed yet, you’re slow.
The grass will always be greener on the other side if we don’t open up to that this might just be as good s it gets. Very often we think that things can be better than they are, and it’s great when people pursue that, but what is that perusing just turns into that you constantly are looking over the fence just to find that no matter what you do to your soil to make the grass greener, it just wont. And that you find that you are doing something that you never had to worry about in the first place. So this might just be as good as it gets.
But have you thought about how you ask this question? I mean what ever you do it will always be a bit negative, either it’s a way to say that your going up or something or it’s a way for you to say how can the guess get greener? And if your asking someone else is this as good as it gets, you might as well have stated by saying “can’t you do it better?” There you can only answer yes or no, and if the answer is no, guess what, the question is on you again, because now you have to tell your self that this is as far as satisfaction will take you, but by asking the question that just means that you haven’t got the complete satisfaction. And, by the way, who knows where that line of satisfaction is for you, you might not even know it.
from my side, “This is as good as it gets!”
