I remember when being a child my mom making some of the best food that I could have... Until I got to eat to some other children's home and taste the difference. Deep in my heart and in my stomach I always knew that I had the best, but it was always something about others had. Even if it was not that good I would always look with sparkling eyes at other dishes.

The food mentioned in the introduction is actually an analogy with our way of always desiring what others have. It doesn't matter if it is about a job, a house, wife or a car it is always better what the neighbors. It's like written in our DNA to always desire what's over the fence and never by happy with what we have and sometimes we spent an entire life chasing this kind of fulfillment. 

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Very often though in our pursuit for the sweeter pie we face hard times to fit that desires situation. For example you could be a very good backer at the beginning of his career while your neighbor is a well tipped taxi driver that earns more than you do. Wanting to live "his life" you might end up having a job that you don't love at all and it is a time waster that only brings you more money with no satisfaction. It is like wearing a pair of shoes one size smaller just because they're shinier. 

Not only that you loose your current profession by chasing this kind of imaginary fulfillment, but you abandon also a journey that might bring you more money and fulfillment on the long run compared with the sullen taxi driver that you became. A sullen one that's probably not making the same beefy tips that his friend does, but abandoned his profession for chasing other's reality and try to fit in a different shoe size.

If you find yourself doing that very often you might become a professional bouncer who is not "professional" in anything. Always chasing the next big project or better job that will "rock you" without having the patience to do yours will eat up years of possibilities in your niche. Years in which you could have become a "professional" that can ask for a raise or why not start his own business with the knowledge he has. Instead you have only "the next big thing" that's not yours. 

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Going on this dusty road almost inevitably frustrations will arise. It's like always going back where you started because you always look in your neighbors garden and see his grass greener. Doing that you will always be frustrated about not having what he has ending up in procrastination and pity instead of being happy with your possession while working to improve yours. 

The core of all these analogies is that appreciation is something divine. Being happy with what you have will always make you sleep better while making room for the better. On the other hand when we are constantly chasing for other pies we might lose ours and end up stuck between them and salivating. Being unhappy with what we have while doing nothing to change that is also a time waster and the better choice might be in between. 

The sentiment of appreciation for what is on the table makes it taste sweeter even when it is not like that, while chasing very often what others have might become a salty habit after years. Years that will prove that not all that seems sweet for us might be. Even for the ones experiencing it isn't the sweetest for sure, but we couldn't know that. Right?

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