The grass is always greener on the other side is what they say, and it always will be when you let your own grass grow brown and die. We spend too much time looking over the fence to ogle over the neighbors grass that we start to neglect our own. Our society is obsessed with conformity, and in this metaphor it's like a giant homeowner's association. As soon as someone doesn't fit the mold, we gotta kick them out of here so that they don't ruin the image. Our grass dies because we spew chemicals all over it to try and make it look just like the next persons. We have got to stop.

Happy people seem hard to come by today, and sometimes even the happiest seeming people are not okay. The prettiest lawns can have pests underneath (that was pretty lame, but let's keep the metaphor). There will always be someone that has more than you, whether it be more money, or more material things, or whatever you can dream of being jealous of. Hating someone for being well off will not get you farther in life, and judging someone for being worse off than you doesn't get you any farther. Sabotaging someone's landscaping does not make your yard greener, or make your flowers bloom, it just leaves two people with ugly yards. Strive for happiness for yourself, not so that you can be as happy as someone else. Stop looking at someone else and wanting their life, because odds are they look at another and do the same thing. No one knows everything about anyone, and there's almost always something beneath the surface that would change your perspective if you knew.

Conformity is a disease in this age, and so many people are afflicted with the desire to fit in that we're losing our sense of individuality. We line up for days for the newest whatever so that we can flaunt it and feel like a part of the masses. We always have to keep up to date on clothing trends, or home decor to make sure that we're not falling behind and at risk for standing out. There's an inbred fear of sticking out in a crowd, so we all water our lawns and scoff at the people with gnomes and flamingos in theirs'. How dare they break the mold, disgraceful.

It's time to forget other people. Buy that lawn ornament, let the dandelions grow for a little while, because there is so much out there to experience that you miss while worrying about everyone else. Buy those pants even though they were only cool in 2000, eat the ice cream instead of a salad, and don't go see that movie just because everyone else is. Despite what high school teaches you, it's not cool to be just like everyone else. So, stop looking to see how green your neighbors' grass is, and water your own. Make the most of what you've got and don't judge others for doing the same in their own way. We've got one life to live, don't waste it obsessing over how other people are living theirs.