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The only feeling I haven’t felt yet: Jealousy
People talk and write about jealousy a lot. Even I have seen people getting jealous of people, love, care, money, and everything else. However, this feeling is always been an alien feeling for me. I believe my mother is the reason behind it. Her thought patterns regarding other people’s prosperity and hardships made us siblings very kind and generous towards others.
Me and my siblings raised in a middle-class agriculture-based family in the rural parts of India. One thing I love about my parents is that they neither compared us to the other kids during our childhood nor they are comparing us now to other adults. They provided us with a good education but never forced us to study or get good marks. They never asked about our grades, even they never showed any expression if any of us ever achieved anything. I consider it as their humbleness, they never made us feel any pride. I believe they kept us very grounded.
It is this habit of theirs, we never give much thought to other kids’ achievements. We never had to compete with anyone for anything. It is because we were never jealous of other people’s success. People get jealous of their competition. We never had any competition.
It does not mean that we were careless about our goals. All of us were quite good at academics. And we are doing good or equal to our peers.
