In the good old days of music, way back in the years B.B. (before Beatles) song writers used to write many truisms into the popular songs of the day. There was one old song that told a story worth remembering. It was called Back In Your Own Back Yard. The words, in part, went like this: "You'll find that heaven of blue is waiting for you, back in your own backyard. You'll find your happiness lies right under your eyes, back in your own backyard.” The same story has been told many ways. “ The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, or far away fields look green". The gist of the whole matter is that we should stop envying those who appear to have a better lot in life than we have and start enjoying those many blessings we do have. I guess it is just human nature for men to envy someone else, but I have often found that while I was looking through the neighbors fence at some thing of his I'd like to have, he was doing the same to me. Life has a way of balancing things out. No one person gets all the blessings, just as no one person has all the woes. Over the long haul, we all must laugh a little and cry a little. We will have a good days and bad. We will have fortune both smile and frown upon us all. It is a happy man who can go through his life content with what he has right there in his own backyard. If you have your health, three meals a day and a roof over your head; if you have a few people who love you, then what more can you ask. If you figure you've had nothing but bad brakes, remember this old proverb; "I complained because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet".
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