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envy is one of the worst feelings
envy is a weird emotion because it doesn't always look like hatred.sometimes you don't even hate the person you're jealous of.
you might actually like them.
you might respect them.
and that's what makes envy so uncomfortable.
you see someone with something you desperately want — their appearance, talent, confidence, friendships, success, opportunities, or just the life they seem to have — and suddenly your own life feels smaller.
the worst part is that envy doesn't only make you want what somebody else has.
sometimes it makes you want them to lose it.
that's when it becomes genuinely ugly.
you start thinking about why they don't deserve it, why they're overrated, why they're actually not that special, why they probably got lucky.
anything that makes you feel better about yourself without actually changing anything.
and i've realized that's one of the biggest traps of envy.
instead of asking “how can i improve?”, your brain starts asking “how can i make their success feel less important?”
comparing yourself constantly makes it even worse.
there will always be someone taller.
someone smarter.
someone more talented.
someone richer.
someone more attractive.
someone who got an opportunity you didn't.
if your happiness depends on being better than the people around you, you're basically making yourself permanently miserable because there will always be another comparison.
and social media makes this even worse.
you're not comparing your normal life to somebody else's normal life.
you're comparing your behind-the-scenes to their best moments.
you see the result but rarely see the years, failures, advantages, disadvantages, luck and circumstances that produced it.
envy also makes people blind to what they already have.
you can have ten things going right and still spend the entire day thinking about the one thing somebody else has.
that's probably what makes envy such a horrible feeling.
it takes something that could have been motivation and turns it into resentment.
but there is another way to use it.
when you feel envy, don't immediately judge yourself for having the emotion.
instead ask:
“what exactly am i jealous of?”
maybe you're jealous of someone's social life because you want more friends.
maybe you're jealous of someone's skill because you want to become good at something.
maybe you're jealous of someone's confidence because you wish you had more of it.
once you identify the actual thing, envy becomes information.
you don't have to hate the person who has it.
you can simply admit:
“yeah, i want that.”
then work toward your own version of it.
and sometimes the answer will be that you can't have exactly what they have.
that's life.
you can't copy somebody else's genetics, childhood, circumstances or entire life.
but you can stop letting their existence make you hate your own.
someone else's success isn't proof of your failure.
someone else's beauty isn't proof that you're ugly.
someone else's talent isn't proof that you're worthless.
someone else winning doesn't automatically mean you lost.
envy becomes destructive when you turn another person's advantages into evidence against yourself.
the goal isn't to never feel envy.
that's probably unrealistic.
the goal is to notice it before it controls you.
envy can either become resentment or information.
you decide what you do with it.