09/12/2026
I came across a video and this woman said, “Social media got y’all thinking the grass is greener because social media ain’t showing y’all the maintenance bill.”
And THAT is the part people forget.
Social media will have you looking at somebody else’s life, relationship, house, body, career, whatever… thinking they got something better than you.
But you’re only seeing what they decided to show you.
You see the flowers. You don’t see the arguments.
You see the trips. You don’t see what it took to pay for them.
You see the happy couple. You don’t see what they had to forgive, work through, rebuild, or sometimes tolerate just to still be standing next to each other.
You see the pretty house. You don’t see the mortgage, repairs, taxes, or everything breaking at the same damn time.
That grass might be green as hell, but baby… somebody is PAYING to keep it that way.
And sometimes while you’re so busy looking over the fence wondering why their grass looks better, yours is dying because you stopped watering it.
Stop letting social media make you ungrateful for a life you once prayed for.
Because everything that looks good comes with upkeep.
And before you trade your yard for somebody else’s…
make sure you can afford their maintenance bill. -Míchelle Annalèise Coles