Jealousy

As little kids, I grew up with siblings or other kids in the neighbour hood, or school mates.
And it allowed me to compare myself with them, to understand our differences.
It wasn't long before we started comparing to an extent that it grew into envy or jealousy.
But I didn't even know how to spell these words back then.
Back when someone's lunch box was shinier than mine.
Back when the teacher drew a star in my classmate's book and not in mine.
Back when the grass grown on some one else's lawn was much greener than that grown on my own.

We were all born with some amount of jealousy and egos as tall as Mount Everest.
Although it doesn't show until we're able to express ourselves with actions, gestures and finally words.
We start off with little things like possessions.
But if it is not controlled, jealousy can do you a whole lot of harm in the long run.
When you think of it now, shinny lunch boxes and green lawns are nothing,
when compared to people, status and capabilities.
We all want what we don't have.
We fail to realize what we have, could be something that someone else doesn't.

Jealousy is a negative emotion, that may cause a kind of satisfaction but moreover it causes hurt.
It causes discontent, insecurity, low self esteem and more than anything it causes ungratefulness.
There's a big difference between being happy and being content.
When you're content you're satisfied. and that brings happiness beyond measure.
It's a state of appreciating what you have, it's a healthy state of living.

So maybe we were born with it, maybe jealousy runs in our blood cause we were all born human.
But growth is inevitable,
and we can all grow out of jealousy just as we grow out of childhood and immaturity.
Jealousy: a fruit of our egos, that tastes as bitter as our ungratefulness.