Jealousy

JEALOUSY

Any living creature in this world is always afraid of competition. They're afraid of coming out of it, losing. Seeing someone getting something you already wished for, is painful for some. Even animals are jealous of each other's fodder. Jealousy is always selfish.

Jealousy starts as a 'wanting' or 'craving' in mind. It is something which makes the person feel that his/her life cannot meet its destiny without it. It can be anything ranging from a materialistic thing to a person. You want that 'something' so badly that it veils your perspective towards those in possessing of it. Our perspectives are always colored by what we hope, what we need & what we love. This state of 'longing-for something/someone' plants the seeds which later turns into a monster called Jealousy. It's a part of our nature. We cannot see anybody fulfilling their dreams. In short, jealousy can be metaphorically termed as an antonym of happiness (of others). Metaphorically, in jealousy there is more 'self-love' than love. A normal person dies just once but the envious dies everytime his envied person is applauded. That's a crucifying feeling for the envious. Seeing the one you hate the most winning can be pretty tough. Jealousy often tames our dedication to ourselves, it always takes us into a world where only hatred prevails.

The only cure for 'jealousy' is 'self-control'. Some saints have dedicated their whole life for practicing self control. Children tend to like anything that is bright in color, even some adults can't resist the sight or even the smell of chocolate. But self-control doesn't comes so easily, you need to apply efforts & work against your desires. In M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village', it is shown that if humans are kept away from money, hubris etc, even a blind person can cross the roads that even the 'wise-and-civilized-people' forget sometimes. A self-made person will always be proud of himself whereas the other's would envy him. But instead of being envious, the latter should try to achieve the same with the help of their own efforts. There is no achievement bigger than that achieved by the one himself. Once you apply your sincere, unbiased efforts, you start achieving your dreams & every achievement becomes a means of celebration.

Thus as is said a million time, without jealousy the world would've been a much better place to live in. But someone very rightly said that 'In order for light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present' i.e. without bad we can't know the good, without right or wrong, we can't understand perfection.

Happy Self-Controlling..