Appreciation

          Appreciation is that rare emotion—growing rarer by the day—experienced by the few who actually look down at the ground beneath their feet instead of across the river to see that yes, the grass beneath them is also a very lush shade of green. It is the ability to understand that though there is always more in the world—more to be had, more to be seen, more to be found—that which is already at hand is also a gift because even when more may be better less is not necessarily worse. It is a wondrous thing to be content, for that is where the key to success lies, after all, who can call themselves successful if he is always looking at his neighbor and asking why he is not said neighbor? Sadly, most of the world prefers to have binoculars for eyes because there is something in them that feels the illogical urge to look up and across for something bigger, brighter, and more tantalizing.