Envy: is it bad or not?

Envy is a feeling that, perhaps, one way or another experienced everything. People envy the appearance of others, work, fame, success. We are discussing whether this is good or bad. Usually distinguish between "white" and "black" envy. In the first case, a person can sincerely rejoice for someone, and the desire to achieve such results will even encourage him to change his way of life, change of work or even some actions.

In the case of "black" envy about some positive aspects of speech there. Most often people feel very bad, watching others' successes. Sometimes it even comes to insults and the termination of communication. Of course, such a feeling will not spur a person to any accomplishments, and even vice versa, will gradually destroy it from the inside. However, not everyone admits to experiencing such emotions.

Traditionally, envy is associated with green. There is a common expression "green with envy". But the Chinese, on the contrary, the symbol of envy are the "red eyes". There is also the expression "envy of the gods" that came to us from ancient times, when people were afraid to even talk about their happiness or success in fear of anger the vengeful deities of the ancient pantheon.

Now people, especially superstitious, also often hide happy events for themselves, both those that have occurred and those planned in the near future. Someone thinks that he can bring himself the evil eye, someone is not happy with his success in public, so as not to become an object of excessive attention and envy, someone just is not used to showing off.

Envy is a mortal sin, some consider. And nevertheless, involuntarily they continue to feel this feeling towards their neighbors, friends and acquaintances. Probably, many want to be envied, because you can feel better than others. But to admit it - death is like, it's like saying about yourself: "I'm not worth anything".

Nevertheless, the feeling of envy is ineradicable, because each person will somehow compare himself with others, try to achieve a certain social status, and seek ways to raise his self-esteem. So do not artificially suppress the growing emotion, unless it carries a pronounced negative color.

Many psychologists believe that envy is not always a problem, it can often become an impulse, although it also limits a person. It also depends on the nature of the warehouse - many people feel that such a feeling leads to depression or even changes their personality. It also depends on the depth of the feeling and on how constant it is.

They say that friends are known in trouble, but in fact, we can say that they are learned in happiness. A good friend must sincerely rejoice at someone else's luck and not say something that can offend or pull the lucky from heaven to earth. Envy is a feeling that can be both bad and good. And it depends only on the person himself whether he will direct such energy to a peaceful channel and begin to work on achieving certain goals or simply look at other people's successes and hate other people for them. In the end, everything is in our hands and every person is the smith of his own happiness.