green-eyed monster
I hate being told I'm jealous. I know I'm possessive. And controlling. And like things to go my way. But jealous? Jealousy is about being unreasonable.My mother used to tell me I was jealous, and it was a very ugly thing to be. I would look at the gift she had just given my little brother, and at my empty hands, and think hang on a minute.
At work once I worked equally on a project with a colleague, who got all the praise. I whinged to my manager, who said I was being jealous, and it was a very ugly thing to be. Hang on a minute.
I still think that if someone does something that damages my sense of worth it is reasonable to be surprised. Even annoyed. But I guess it is my unreasonable perception of 'damaging to my sense of worth' that defines jealous. It is a very ugly thing to be.
Must try harder.
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And things like that happen all the time at work, it has also worked in my favour before. Life isn't always fair.
Okay, envious maybe rather than jealous.
Back the next time I stop for coffee
After listing all your qualities on my blog, why should you be jealous? I thought it would be other being jealous of you?
Going now! Fame and fortune hanging in the balance ...
All depends on who is telling you that you're jealous. Sometimes the accuser is trying to take away the spotlight on themselves by doing this.
I agree with Minerva about you....
If Someone is confident in themselves then they have no real reason to be jealous.
I was always under the impression that there is healthy jealousy and unhealthy jealousy.
Thank you though, do I pay the bill the usual way?
It isn't the way I like to see myself (which is going back to Minerva's blog on profiles)
Comes back to definition
i do hope you have a sense of humour
I guess most people at some point in their life's may feel some jealousy. I am not given to jealousy but I remember when I was a little girl and youngest of 3 brothers who doted on me and spoilt me
Then my one and only cousin who is a girl 3 years older than me, used to love to come and stay in the holidays..WELL ... Then NOT all the attention was given. My mum also loved her only niece and at times I know I got jealous
I really had no reason to and I guess deep down I knew it... But still sadly I did feel it sometimes
We are great buddies my cousin and I and love and cherish happy memories...
That's the only time in my life I think I can honestly say I was jealous.
Hope you do great things with this book you are writing
You and me both re the book! I've had 8 published so far but this is a completely new direction which is always taking a chance. Not making enough to live on in the old direction
Oh the stories we could share, the romance, the drama the wit and just plain old chit chat. I think it would be hysterical. I am giggling at the the thought
You should do a book on that and then get a director to do a sitcom based on it. You would be a millionaire
Oh, and of course Angel would want to manage your finances
We are all covetous by nature.
Goodness knows you don't get to be top mammal on this planet without being so.
So don't beat yourself up over it. There are more than enough other people willing to do that. Avoid them, and be
Thanks.
And now I'm beginning to think Wallops has a real point here with the CS book or TV series. Move over Coronation Street, this could run for YEARS!