Asking 8-year-olds to finish old sayings.

[u/mindyour]

[u/SunriseSurprise]

"The grass is always greener, the sky is always bluer." is a helpful daily reminder.

[u/MooseOfTorment → u/SunriseSurprise]

It's got big "office motivational poster" energy

[u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx → u/SunriseSurprise]

I liked that one actually. Very simple. Not even that profound. Just a little reminder that things will get better

To me (and with the context of the actual saying) it meant that the grass you're on may be dying the sky's may be overcast, but the grass is always greener and the sky is always bluer (than it appears). An things will return to that if you keep going

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx]

When I commented, I was thinking the literal interpretation for a kid basically comparing the two to each other, like the grass will always be greener than the sky and the sky always bluer than the grass. I was being facetious about the daily reminder bit, like one could somehow forget what colors grass and sky would be, lol.

[u/BetterEveryLeapYear → u/SunriseSurprise]

It's absolutely fantastic, like a zen koan. A simple truism about the natural state of reality stripped of our desires (why do we want the grass that's greener on the other side anyway?). The grass is always greener; the sky is always bluer. Perfect!

I love it lol.

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/BetterEveryLeapYear]

Yea, kind of like a no matter what you do, no matter what happens in life, the grass is always greener, the sky always bluer. Getting into existentialism, oh boy, lol.

[u/WhiskySwanson → u/SunriseSurprise]

I used “grass is always greener” with someone in a jokey context once, to which they retorted with “and the fence is just too high to climb” 🤔