envy

[davidiaz25]

According to his definition envy is feeling sadness or regret for the well being.But why be envious? If each one has is because he made merits or not to have it

 

[pinoycity]

Well, envy is one of the seven deadly sins. It will always be disadvantageous to envy as this will slowly eat away the spirit of a person and make him/her resentful. Humans know this but are still envious of others.

 

[jannet]

envy is a feeling of discontentment. there's a lot of factors like achievement in life, studies and most specially the people around us. we can't avoid to feel this way.

 

[jazzme]

i think we cannot control this feeling specially if we want something that we cannot get easily. but as the bible says envy is a sin, so we just have to replace the envy into a good and acceptable manner.

 

[7777]

A lot will envy others because they have better looks then they do. Also people may be envious of people that have more money if they are suffering in poverty.

 

[supahmanross9]

Why do people Envy others? Why would someone hate to see someone else happy or feel bad whenever he sees him doing well?

Do those who envy others do it because they are bad people?? Or is there some other reason behind these feelings of envy?

Feelings of envy doesn’t stem from hating other people or from being an evil person but they usually stem from the inferiority feelings you experience when you see someone else doing better than you.

Our thoughts come to our minds from two different sources. From within, where we suddenly remember something that is of importance to us or from the external environment where we see something that reminds us of something else.

You might not remember your obesity problem until you see someone with a perfect body or an advertisement for swimsuits. People who have emotional wounds don’t feel bad all of the time but they just remember the wounds whenever they encounter something that reminds them of their wounds.

Envy doesn’t result from seeing someone doing better than us but it results from remembering that we are no good or that we can’t do like what he did.

When you have an inferiority wound you will tend to remember it whenever you see someone doing things that you think you can’t do. Your wound could be a generalized one like thinking that you are no good in doing anything or a specific one like thinking that you can’t achieve financial success. The more generalized your wound is there more will be the feelings of envy in your life. (see Inferiority feelings)

The type of inferiority I am talking about here is not the famous inferiority complex but it’s rather a belief that you are no good at doing something or at least not as good as your friends.

We all have weak points and we all might envy others at some points of our lives but what differentiates a strong person from a weak person is that the first will use the feelings of envy as a motive to make bigger achievements while the other person will suppress the envy feelings deep inside him along with the big pile of suppressed emotions he has.

Building self confidence won't be helpful unless you build confidence in that specific field you think you are not good at. Dealing with feelings of envy is not hard, you just have to prove to yourself that you can do better than your peers and you will never envy them again.

 

[jany]

Envy is not that bad if one take it as a challenge.
Some people do their best to achieve something because they envied those people who achieved things that they also want to have.
So,envy is not bad if taken as a challenge and inspiration.
It only becomes bad and dangerous if envy is wanting to have what others got at the cost of harming other people.

 

[ladyness]

Envy is a complex and puzzling emotion. It is, notoriously, one of the seven deadly sins. It is very commonly charged with being (either typically or universally) unreasonable, irrational, imprudent, vicious, or wrong to feel. With very few exceptions, the ample philosophical literature defending the rationality and evaluative importance of emotions explicitly excludes envy and a few other nasty emotions as irredeemable. Indeed, some authors who are prepared to defend even jealousy insist that envy is beyond the pale. Yet there is considerable controversy over what precisely envy is, and the cogency of various specific criticisms of envy depends on what view of that subject is adopted.