There are all sorts of negative emotions that many people suffer from, of which, one of the most pernicious, is jealousy. The thing about envy is basically nobody would ever be very envious if they concentrated primarily upon their own skill-set and thus their own plate of what they have in front of them and therefore dealt with directly the priorities and objectives that best represented for them, what they were trying to achieve in life, as opposed to looking aside at the other person’s skill-set and what they appear to have as if it somehow it was supposed to be one’s own.
It must be acknowledged, that nobody actually knows for a certainty how a particular person is really feeling, nor do we know for a certainty how joyful or sad a given person actually is. There is this belief, for many a person, that somehow the grass is always greener on the other side, but this simply is not so. Further to the point, whenever we waste countless hours, grinding and gnashing our teeth, about how this or that person has so much more than we do, and that it all appears to be so unfair, or wrong, this does absolutely nothing of substance to meaningfully address the pertinent things that we should really devote our time and energies upon. So too, those that are so caught up in their own self, are pretty much failing to understand, that life does not and never will revolve around our exclusive interests and our desires, but that life is a combination of all sorts of people congregating together, of which, our purpose in life, should be to do more to help make this world a better place for our participation in it. In other words, we would be less prone to be jealous, if we spent more time being of aid to others, which would therefore make us more appreciative of all the gifts that we so have, that we often thus take for granted.
Those that are most jealous, are those that feel that they lack the wherewithal, or the capacity, to ever be what they perceive that the other person that they are jealous of, has. So then, we are jealous, because we feel inferior to the other, and do not believe that we can ever successfully place ourselves in a position of equality, or of superiority, to them. But this sort of comparison to the other, does not serve any good or great purpose. After all, each of us has our own race to run, of which, the object of the exercise, is to run the best race that we can personally run, so done, with us focused upon staying within our own lane. In life, each of us has our own calling, and if we insist upon ignoring that calling, because we are envious of the other, and can’t seem to get the other out of our mind, then we will not be able to make the necessary and positive progress that is ours for the taking in this life. So then, those that are overly jealous, are essentially wasting their lives away, pining for that which is not theirs, never seeming to comprehend that life is not a competition, but should rather be a collaboration.