Why is the grass always greener?

Affable

Why is it that the grass is always greener somewhere else?
Most of us are suspeptible to this phenomenon of longing for another place wherever we are. But what ideas do yuo have for why this is and how it can be dealt with?

mayblue

i think it's because it's in our nature to search and keep searching for whatever is on the other side of the fence.
we are curious beings and we always want more...there are very few who are happy with what they have

in general i think that without the willingness to search for something better we would still be living in caves, this curiosity we have is what made us evolve...

Evilsbane

^Exactly. The restless desire for things to change helps us adapt when they inevitably do.

Affable

I can never fully enjoy a place, no matter how impressive, without thinking I should be somewhere else.

Nevyn

I reckon it comes from a physical phenomenon.
That the grass further away appears greener due to the angle at which the light
bouncing of it reaches the eye is different then that under foot.

Grass that is closer can have it's imperfections seen and that which is at a distance will have such imperfections over looked.

There for it is about perception and how perception can be flawed.

ChocolateSauce

Thaedydal wrote: »

I reckon it comes from a physical phenomenon.
That the grass further away appears greener due to the angle at which the light
bouncing of it reaches the eye is different then that under foot.

Grass that is closer can have it's imperfections seen and that which is at a distance will have such imperfections over looked.

There for it is about perception and how perception can be flawed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

Húrin

Affable wrote: »

Why is it that the grass is always greener somewhere else?
Most of us are suspeptible to this phenomenon of longing for another place wherever we are. But what ideas do yuo have for why this is and how it can be dealt with?

It's because we visit the other place in our minds, but forget that if we were to actually go there, we would have to bring our bodies, which cause problems.

Nevyn

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

I am aware of Rayleigh scattering and how due to the % of nitrogen in that atmosphere the sky is blue.

It's one of the first thing I went to find out about when I learned I was expecting my first born cos right from then I wanted to be the type of parent
who can answer those types of questions.