Personal Narrative: Jealousy

It is human nature to experience a variety of emotions throughout the extensive journey of life, especially jealousy. Jealousy is the state of being fearful or wary of being supplanted [1]. It is essentially when a person sees a threat to what they have or what they want to have. Many people experience it every day, but not a lot actually stop to analyze and consider the effects of it on their outlooks on life. Hence, jealousy starts out as a small pestering feeling, but it can grow. Jealousy is continuously misunderstood and remains unanalyzed every day by those who experience it. Many do not know that jealousy is caused by anger, it is related to self-esteem, and the feelings of it can be avoided and overcome.

Jealousy is largely caused by anger, which occurs when another person has what one does not, or threatens what one already has. This causes one to reflect on what they have and experience a degree of pain or hurt due to their lacking or threat to it. In my own experience, I continuously come across those who have a mother. I have never really had a mother, so when I am placed in these circumstances, I feel sad at first, and then I feel angry because the other person has what I have always wanted. This is jealousy in its popular state, and in this form it can be very destructive depending on the choices

There are many ways to do this, the most important being that one recognizes they are indeed feeling the emotion, and striving to counter the thoughts that are going through their head. Another way is to completely and utterly immerse oneself in self-appreciation and love at the time of provocation; “Self worth comes with self appreciation and love. People who are truly comfortable and secure with themselves, rarely let jealousy get in the way.” [5] This quote shows that those who are self-reassured, appreciated, and loved, can easily eradicate the affect of jealousy in their