The grass is always greener...

Or...you only know what you want when you no longer got it. Just thinking about this again, triggered strangely by the news reports of Yelzin’s death and how many Russians might not see him in the same light as the rest of the world does – but now that he’s dead – they might look at it in a different light again and he may well become one of the great.

Isn’t it in every situation that we urge for change, we want things to be different, new and exciting but then once we find ourselves in the new surrounding we remember the ‘good old days’ and are not so sure about the things that are new?

Not sure whether this is a protective measure or whether it is laziness or whatever else…just not sure why it is that we do it, we always compare the past with the present, the present with the past and the things we have with the things we don’t. Guess it has to do with reference points and making sense of the world…