"This is something that I've worked long and hard to do."
How I did it: I guess human beings are jealous people to begin with. Or maybe it's just some of us. Either way, jealousy was ruining my life. I was always jealous of who the boy I liked was with, or who my friends were hanging out with. I always asked myself, "Why can't that be me?" I would get jealous and mad and people would just avoid me because they thought I would be bitchy towards them. I began to get depressed and I thought no one would like me, and I entered a very dark period of my life, all because of jealousy.
I'm not even entirely sure when the jealousy stopped, or when it stopped. All I know is that I had a revelation, and I finally understood what people had been telling me all along. "Jealousy is a rotten thing." Well, I REALLY, finally realized that.
Lessons & tips: Don't take anything for granted. Be thankful that you have what you have! There are so many people who have nothing! If you just remind yourself of this when you see someone with a cool looking cell phone or designer jeans, then it really won't bother you as much. Who cares what clothes a person wears anyway, and who cares what kind of material possessions a person has? That kind of stuff doesn't make the person.
Resources: My friends, people around me who don't take their lives for granted.
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