Who are you jealous of?

Why I don’t ignore the voice of jealousy and how I make it work for me.

Anonymous
The Startup
Published in
4 min readMar 26, 2018

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Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

Few emotions manage to awaken people’s disgust the way Jealousy does.

To prove my point, let’s see what people throughout history have said about Jealousy:

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. — Robert Kraft

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. — James 3:16

Jealousy is a mental cancer. — B.C. Forbes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Robert A. Heinlein

While four cherry-picked quotes do not a bullet-proof argument make, I think that’s enough to cement Jealousy’s spot on the throne as the “King of Awful, Life-Ruining, Really, Really Bad, No Good…

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