Love is not the only thing that is blind, jealousy too is in the category. It does not differentiate or discriminate. Have you ever felt that the closest person to you turns jealous of you? Believe me it is an awful feeling. The reasons may be existence of a fear that you do not have value and others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.
I personally feel that in a relation whether it is friendship or just professional colleagues rapport, jealousy is like salt in food. A little jealousy is natural and like salt in food it can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the comfort level between two individuals. Too much jealousy not only strains the relationships, it also turns people less tolerant in life.
With maturity we learn to accept different kind of people in life - as colleagues, batch mates, in society and so on. If you think about it, we hardly get to choose people around us. Out of these there may be many people who are more accomplished than us and if we can accept strangers as more accomplished than us, then why not our own friends!
Ambrose Bierce said “calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others”… and if these “others” are known people, it makes it for a bigger calamity!
1 comment:
Yes dear, close ppl feeling J can be shocking. Maybe its coz ppl have a perception/expectation and if you exceed them they cant stand it. Also insecurity is a killer. Such -ve emotions crop up when one is insecure. I am sure u r smart to sense n handle it :)
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