Jealousy

You know, one thing that humans can find very hard to control is Jealousy.

When someone has received some good fortune,

some others won't be able to share in their happiness,

and are just upset that they haven't received the good fortune themselves.

Jealous people want what other people have and they don't.

Jealous people don't want other people to have what they have.

Jealous people are unhappy because they can never have everything they want.

Jealousy can never be satisfied,

only controlled.

Now, most of the time being jealous doesn't help to change things at all,

and often makes things worse.

You see, what the jealous person wants doesn't even have to be possible.

It is enough for them to be able to imagine it as possible

for them to find a reason to be jealous.

Jealousy can have impossible dreams,

but even when what is envied is possible

and does change to what the jealous person wants,

a jealous mind can still find so many different reasons to be jealous.

It's possible to be jealous of other people for the things they own,

or their riches, or strength, or beauty, or skill.

The reason humans can be jealous of others in so many ways

is because it is part of what humans are.

A kind of Jealousy can power the urge to achieve,

in sport or business,

in science or games,

envying someone's achievements

and then like them trying to be the best at something.

So it is possible for people to use jealousy, focussed and under control, to achieve good,

envying someone else's good deeds,

but one thing jealousy can never do is make the one who feels it happy.

Quite the opposite,

jealousy always makes the one who feels it unhappy.

It is a way of seeing the world that makes us feel bad,

and it has to be kept under control.

Jealousy makes us look to other people to see what we don't have,

while showing no concern for those who are jealous of what we have ourselves.