Thursday, August 26, 2004

Jealousy

Jealousy

The dictionary define jealousy as the state of being jealous. Feeling jealous has a few derogatory meanings:
Being jealous means wanting to keep what one has possessively,
It also means feeling unhappy at someone's success.
Another word often used for the last meaning is "envious". Of the two words "envious" means wishing one has something tat another has and "jealous" maens something even more unpleasant - actually hating the person who has recieved good fortune. There are couple of good uses of the word, but theres are not so commonly used nowadays. We can sae that a person guards his home of his honour jealously. But usually, the word "jealousy" brings to mind negative and undesirable qualities.

The feeling of jealousy is one of the most dangerous that a person can feel towards another. A person who is jealous almost immediately loses his ability to reason. if a man feels jealous about another's achievement, chances are e spends a lot of time feeling angry at that person, for something that he has probably gained through his hard word. Sometimes this anger can lead to violence. Violence usually takes place when all reasoning ends. We read of violent crimes committed by men in love, when the woman he loves loves someone else. Immediately the loser thinks he is a victim and acts as if he has been cheated. He cannot see that all that has happened is that the woman has chosen according to her own inclinations. If the man had truly loved her, the JEALOUSY HAS NO PLACE IN HIS MIND. He should think of her happiness. Though the illustration mentions only male jealousy, female jealousy has been known to be jus as vivious.

On another meaning of jealousy, some people are apt to b jealous if someone they love, or are jus found of, pays attention to someone else. This is common even in ordinary friendship. A poorly adjusted individual may want a certain friend to keep only his company. So if he sees the person whom he believes he "owns" talking to someone else, he FLIES INTO A RAGE. This kinda of behaviour shows extreme immaturity. The truth is that NO ONE OWNS ANYONE. Even in love relationships, there should be no jealousy involved, and no attempt to posses a person as if he or she were an Object. Love relationship should be founded on MUTUAL turst and jealousy has NO place in it.

Jealousy at another's good fortune is the most harmful of all. Elder, and scriptures, bibles have been telling us that if one is jealousy of another, and wishes him evil, the effect of the jealousy will be felt by oneself. This may sound like a tall tale, but there is scienctific evidence of its turth. Research shows that when we wish evil on someone - like wishin him to contract an incurable disease, our thoughts have no power to harm the person we feel jealous about. What happens is that our mind interprets the thought as meaning that is "OK" for such a situation to happen- in this case to suffer from an incurable disease. Since it has no power to casue someone else to be sick, it attracts the illness to the person who has the thought.
Whatever form jealousy takes it is certainly a very DANGEROUS feeling - for the person who feels it as well as for the others.

Dun dwell into jealousy i would sae...

screwed the past practicals, but oh well wad is done can never be undone. eve shall not cry over split milk. checkin out then.

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