Is envy the root of all evil?

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Today I want to talk about one of the least loved emotions. Envy ends up being the driving force behind most of our actions. But is it because it is associated with a less positive emotion or feeling that it should be considered an emotion that we should abolish from our lives?

Is there nothing positive or beneficial about feeling envious?

If we do the simple experiment of having two domestic animals facing us, and giving or directly giving only one of them access to food, the other will feel that it has been deprived of the opportunity to have access to something. But if you look at it from a distance, there was nothing to say before the other person had access to something that doesn't exist in abundance.

ENVY: This feeling is one of the main drivers of action and choices that most living beings make. With or without real awareness. Of course, there are always exceptions.

But how can we make envy something we can look at positively? If we see someone who has achieved something because they are different from us, we shouldn't look at ourselves as someone inferior to the other. Rather, we should be happy that the other person has the ability and has developed something that has led them to achieve something that we also want for ourselves.

Our existence is an exercise in comparison with others. We make this comparison whenever we can. It's something we may not be proud of, but we do it in our work. When someone is promoted, and if it's someone who has the same skills as us, it will trigger a feeling of wanting to achieve what the other person has. But can we make an objective analysis? Not be subjective and only look at our own navel? Do we have the ability to understand why we're not better?

We should take what we consider to be opportunities and look to them to elevate us as human beings. If we aspire to have a more shapely body with greater muscle definition, are we doing the things that are within our reach, or are we just focusing on what we consider to be the things that we don't have, and that keep us from that goal?

We shouldn't take obstacles as a point of arrival and give up, but rather take them and look at what we have to overcome internally and externally in order to get closer and closer to what we want.

When we learn to swim, even water seems like an obstacle. And indeed it is. But without the resistance caused by the water, we wouldn't be able to build up the muscle and dexterity to be able to swim forward.

It's always easier to look at our neighbor's garden and compare it to our own. Our neighbor's lawn will always seem greener and more alive than our own. It's legitimate to want more, yes. But what did our neighbor do during all the preparation of his yard? Has he just given the lawn maintenance a fortnight? Are we willing to work harder to get a better result, or are we just focused on success?

In a society that only focuses on success, there is rarely any focus on the entire journey that was taken to achieve it. The people who are shown on social media, television and magazines as slim and successful are indeed successful, but at what cost. Are we aware of the effort and work they put in to achieve that success?

Is our society only focused on the goal, omitting all the sacrifice made to achieve it? We have to look at our envy and not feel diminished. Don't feel inferior to others. That's the negative part of envy. Instead, we should take advantage of envy to aim for our goals, to aim to overcome challenges and blockages we may have.

Envy should be seen as something natural that is part of every being's condition. We will never be another being, but we must direct our energies towards improving ourselves inside and out, so that the path becomes easier to achieve something we don't yet have.

Do you also feel the weight of envy? Do you see it as a less worthy feeling, or on the other hand, can you see the potential in accepting that we should always do our best, not because we want to be better than those we envy, but because we want to improve our “eternal home”?

Thank you for taking the time to read my post today.

Cheers🍀

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