Even in the most ancient religious writings, envy and pride were highlighted as mortal sins. The first follows from the second, and the second from the first - this is how Chinese Buddhist monks describe the feeling of envy. This feeling appeared together with us and it is experienced only by us - people. This emotion is not available to animals, but there is an exception. They are primates. Hundreds of experiments have shown that when even the most primitive community emerges, test subjects begin to experience pride and envy. What is the reason for this? Until now, many researchers have argued that envy is a defensive reaction to unfair social stratification in society. According to them, envy should have been a powerful stimulus for development for a person. Help him reach the heights he dreamed of.
Everything has changed recently. For example, you don't have to be rich or have a lot of power to make anyone jealous. For envy, it is enough to lead an interesting and active life. Even just running in the morning, a person already causes the envy of others, although he himself does not know about it. We, humans, are biological living organisms and differ from animals only in reason. It cannot be denied that we also have instincts. Animal envy arises every time someone does something that we cannot afford. Even the banal opportunity to brew coffee in the office is already envy of colleagues. Obviously, such envy is not at all caused by a person's desire for justice or personal growth. This is the real black envy, which is not justified. This is the response of consciousness to someone's superiority,in whatever trifle it is expressed.
Successful people rarely envy anyone. They understand what they want and boldly go towards their dream. In the end, they achieve it and move on. They do not envy people who go for a morning run, because they understand that they can easily do the same. People who envy every little thing at the genetic level admit their defeat and someone else's superiority. In this case, envy is a feeling of bitter regret about what they cannot do or achieve. Envy never comes alone, it often stems from another sin - from laziness. Objectively, a person can always start morning jogging, it does not require any investment or special personal qualities. It is enough to have willpower and two legs. This is where laziness comes in. Laziness is a prison for reason, it prevents us from achieving what we want. A person is not jealous becausethat he can't go jogging, but because he is too lazy to do it. He will always find thousands of new reasons that will allow him to postpone any business until tomorrow, and then postpone another and another.
It turns out that envy is a vice that destroys a person? In most cases, this is true. Envy is a powerful emotion. For some people, the power to wind up even exceeds the power of anger. A person is ready for any nasty thing, just to bypass the one he envies. Such people do not see anything around them. They go head to head and believe that a good end justifies any means. But this is not so. Having achieved what he wants, such a person quickly loses incentive. He has nothing to strive for. He has no one to envy. As a result, he was left alone, because he destroyed all friendly social ties while blindly following his own envy. Jealousy only led him to seeming success. He lost much more than he gained.
The feeling of envy is not uniform. He has completely different reasons. It is customary among the people to conditionally divide envy into black and white. At the same time, black envy is a blind pursuit of a goal, while white, on the contrary, does not generate any consequences. And this is a delusion.
Scientists argue that abnormally strong black envy never occurs in people who are incapable of development. Moreover, such people, even without envying anyone, have achieved considerable success. Envy of this kind appears exclusively in strong people who are ready for any change. Ready to destroy their whole life in order to build a new, much more beautiful one on its ruins.
White envy is characteristic of insecure introverts. This is a fleeting admission of one's own inferiority. It is admiration for the success of others and a deliberate diminution of self-esteem. White envy is much more dangerous than black envy. Strong black envy gives a goal, and you can get rid of it and live a full life. White envy plunges a person into depression, and when it intensifies, it brings a person to the realization of the frailty and uselessness of his existence. Launched white envy leads to suicide. Bible teachings did not lie that jealousy is the most dangerous feeling. It is a sin that cannot bring anything good, but people are sinful by nature.
A separate type of envy appeared long ago, but only recently became widespread. This is not a feeling of envy in a person, but a persistent need to be envied by others. The starting point for such envy is another sin - pride. A person does not envy anyone, but he is forced to constantly perform actions that arouse admiration in other people. It acts like a drug. There is a need to improve every time. This type of envy is not so straightforward. It's one thing if a football player or any other athlete experiences it. He does everything to make his fans admire and envy him. This envy leads him to success and gives him additional strength. This kind of envy is good in any profession.
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The flip side stands out among the extreme. The obsessive need to perform more and more complex and dangerous stunts is due not only to envy, but also to the adrenaline addiction of a person. His life is beautiful and bright, everyone envies him and everyone admires him, but one day luck turns away. You have to pay for your achievements with your life. Such envy is dangerous and, just like white, leads to extremely bad consequences.