Free of Jealousy
As a teen girl it is quite hard to not compare yourself to others. Whether it be with the way a person looks, their intelligence or how popular they are. I, myself, have always been jealous of what someone else had and what I did not have; I have never counted my blessings and thanked God for what I was fortunate enough to have. If I could talk to every single pre teen girl in the world today, I would tell them that they are beautiful and don’t need to look to others for reassurance. They only need to look in themselves for self love and acceptance. Even as I am saying this now, I still struggle consistently with believing this myself. I am always trying to overcome this and fully accept myself.
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To attain this, we first have to understand what jealousy is and where it comes from. Jealousy is defined by Merriam Webster as, an unhappy or angry feeling of wanting to have what someone else has. Jealousy has been around since Biblical times; it shows multiple examples of jealousy and envy throughout. In a study, nineteen Japanese students were asked to discuss a rival that was more successful than them, while being scanned by an MRI. These scanned showed that the frontal lobe of the brain now takes credit for the home of jealousy. So even though we now know that humans are predisposed to become jealous of others, we still raise the question. Why are humans jealous? There really is no answer to this question. I will try to explain my reasoning of jealousy, but I still question myself on whether I am right or …show more content…
Elizabeth Bowen, an Irish writer, once wrote “Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies” (Psychology Today). She summed up jealousy in just a sentence. When we are jealous we think the other people are happy and perfect. We never think that they are struggling just as we are. Their lives are nothing but a goal we want to have but we never will because life would be boring if everyone was the same. We need to have different types of personalities, different voices, different versions of beauty to have life be the way it is. If not, then why are we here if our goal is to attain the set type of the “perfect person” because this will never be possible, in other words impossible. We all know that it is impossible to become someone else so why do we try so hard to be that someone else? We may never know but we can try to change it. If I could voice my opinion to every girl, boy, child, teen or person today I would say. Stop trying to change who you are for the world, just go change the world. Together as a collective world we can change whatever we want to but it just takes a lot of work. We could become free of jealousy and comparison and self hate if we stop promoting it through social media, the internet, and the media. We should be promoting diversity, uniqueness, and variety within mankind. I am looking forward to the day, where I can say that I am free of jealousy; and that I am able
As a teen girl it is quite hard to not compare yourself to others. Whether it be with the way a person looks, their intelligence or how popular they are. I, myself, have always been jealous of what someone else had and what I did not have; I have never counted my blessings and thanked God for what I was fortunate enough to have. If I could talk to every single pre teen girl in the world today, I would tell them that they are beautiful and don’t need to look to others for reassurance. They only need to look in themselves for self love and acceptance. Even as I am saying this now, I still struggle consistently with believing this myself. I am always trying to overcome this and fully accept myself.
Just one example is every …show more content…
To attain this, we first have to understand what jealousy is and where it comes from. Jealousy is defined by Merriam Webster as, an unhappy or angry feeling of wanting to have what someone else has. Jealousy has been around since Biblical times; it shows multiple examples of jealousy and envy throughout. In a study, nineteen Japanese students were asked to discuss a rival that was more successful than them, while being scanned by an MRI. These scanned showed that the frontal lobe of the brain now takes credit for the home of jealousy. So even though we now know that humans are predisposed to become jealous of others, we still raise the question. Why are humans jealous? There really is no answer to this question. I will try to explain my reasoning of jealousy, but I still question myself on whether I am right or …show more content…
Elizabeth Bowen, an Irish writer, once wrote “Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies” (Psychology Today). She summed up jealousy in just a sentence. When we are jealous we think the other people are happy and perfect. We never think that they are struggling just as we are. Their lives are nothing but a goal we want to have but we never will because life would be boring if everyone was the same. We need to have different types of personalities, different voices, different versions of beauty to have life be the way it is. If not, then why are we here if our goal is to attain the set type of the “perfect person” because this will never be possible, in other words impossible. We all know that it is impossible to become someone else so why do we try so hard to be that someone else? We may never know but we can try to change it. If I could voice my opinion to every girl, boy, child, teen or person today I would say. Stop trying to change who you are for the world, just go change the world. Together as a collective world we can change whatever we want to but it just takes a lot of work. We could become free of jealousy and comparison and self hate if we stop promoting it through social media, the internet, and the media. We should be promoting diversity, uniqueness, and variety within mankind. I am looking forward to the day, where I can say that I am free of jealousy; and that I am able