AsenDURE @ Corner of 11th & 20th

We’ve all come to be familiar with, and experienced to a certain degree, Shakespeare’s “green-eye’d monster” - jealousy. Recent terms of events has got me thinking about this very nature of human emotion, reflecting and rationalize, it’s very nature and impact on our lives. This feeling seems universal and both man and gods have been plagued by jealousy.

To oversimplify I think that jealousy stems from insecurity. It does not imply that the insecure person is bad or good nor this insecurity warranted or unwarranted. It simply means that the person is not secure, either in themselves, their relationship or what they have.

While insecurity is necessarily pejorative, it is not so when there is an actual basis for the feeling, but if insecurity is not founded on realistic dangers and most of the time, is really the case, it becomes a real danger. Solving those sorts of insecurities isn’t easy, but until one does one will continue to face those nagging feelings at the back of the mind

Some distinguish between jealousy and envy on the ground that jealousy involves the wish to keep what one has, and envy the wish to get what one does not have.

finally here’s an old adage to a friend of mine who’s currently at the receiving end of this unfortunate turn of events…

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”

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