'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence' is what my father always says.
He is a man who spent much of his youth traveling the world trying to 'find himself'. He ended up moving back to the same town he was born in.
He is a man who spent much of his youth traveling the world trying to 'find himself'. He ended up moving back to the same town he was born in.
(I stole this quote from the chapter titles of The Philosopher Kings, a documentary which I saw on a plane last week:
http://www.philosopherkingsmovie.com/about/about-the-film/
I liked it.)
Everyone has an unhappiness inside them -- and they act it out in different ways. Some people strive for more zeroes at the end of their bank account. Some people search for love. Some people try to escape through drugs.
The commonality to all this is that you can't fix that unhappiness via something to be found or something to be avoided.
They are fine things to have, and it can be fun to try to make more money just to see how high you can push that number. It's foolish to think that hitting $150,000 will be much different from $75,000, or will bring you any more real happiness.
Keep it light, keep it fun, keep non-emotional in the treadmill and see it for what it is.