Understanding envy

Envy is the internal pain that comes with overlooking your own opportunities while desiring to have what someone else has. It is different from admiration. The latter entails the recognition and celebration of the good qualities in someone else, without feeling threatened.

The story below shows how envious people can typically relate with those they envy:

*Senatla is a 25 year old woman who has been consistently working hard to sell clothes and other marketable merchandise along a busy road in one of the local villages, for the past four years. Her small scale business has grown from strength to strength every year, despite all the challenges she initially faced as a young business woman. One of things that Senatla has also successfully accomplished was to grow a reliable clientele base, thanks to her good quality service.

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