Sarah Kershaw Feeling Envious Analysis

Every day when getting up in the morning, we go straight to the mirror to look; not at our unique features but every one of our flaws. When looking at our reflections, we tend to either not like what we see. Usually, we don 't appreciate ourselves and try to change everything about ourselves to be different. We start to decrease our self-esteem and scape everything away that we love about ourselves. In order to remedy this issue, we compare others to ourselves for either comfort or escape the problem. Feeling envious leads to either lower self-esteem or deeper appreciation of who we are and if we are careful enough, I do believe feeling envious could lead to finding one’s own happiness
Everyone has a different approach to being envious, even though it ultimately depends on one’s actions whether it could lead to self-destructive behavior or constructive life changes. In addition Sarah Kershaw’s article, “Feeling Envious,” introduces the readers to the trap of being envious by putting the reader 's perspective in a particular situation of being demoralized and self-deprecation. By doing this, she introduces the “compare and despair” syndrome and argues how envy can help motivate …show more content…
Kershaw distinguishes the destructive poison of envy and how it can easily overtake someone’s life to turn happiness into self-harming. She elaborates upon how this vile emotion can be motivating, forcing us realize our own goals and desires. Envy can strive us to conquer greater obstacles. Envying someone 's accomplishments, appearance, ideas, and confidence can motivate others to try harder and make positive changes that can benefit their futures rather than being consume by self-loathing and despair. In order to become successful, Kershaw wants us to “consider emulating the target of your envy” or “what it took for them get the job or whatever else they have that you