Envy

                           

People love your neighbor as yourself but never use envy to the point that it is bad for your health.

Both jealousy and envy are natural emotions. When either of these emotions consumes you and you react unreasonably instead of consciously, then the emotions can lead to bad results. People do harmful things when in a jealous rage. They end important relationships with those they envy.

Envy is the tendency to perceive with displeasure the good of others while jealousy is the fear that something you have (be it a person or a possession) will be taken away from you by someone else. Envy gives you a bad attitude. Envy can bog you down with crippling negativity. It can turn someone who was once a go getter into someone who constantly complains and looks on the downside. It is not a positive emotion.

It is no fun to feel envy or jealous because both make you feel inadequate. Envy is when you want what someone else has and resent them for it. However, jealousy is when you are worried about someone trying to take what you have. If someone dates who you are dating you feel jealousy.

Envious people tend to feel hostile, resentful, angry and irritable.

Envy harms you.

Taking up your time.

Consuming your thoughts.

Ruining your personal and professional relationships.

Have bad effect on your personality.

Creating negativity.

Envy is caused by dissatisfaction with your self image, your perception of your actual stature. This dissatisfaction is also called low self-esteem, a poor self appraisal of your actual stature.

Envy might lead someone to avoid, dislike, and make others hate who they are envious of through lies, manipulation and deception.

Not all envies are created equal, while some envy leaves nothing but a bad aftertaste, others may inspire you to reach new heights of achievements. The right kind of envy can serve an important personal and social function, which can encourage someone to try harder in order to succeed. Instead of using envy as self destruction of yourself, use it in a positive way that encourages you to achieve higher stature.

by Chibike I. Nwabude