Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Nature of Jealousy

Jealousy is a negative term that is used to refer to the ugly outcomes of negative emotions and anxiety. It is experienced by almost every person at one time in one’s life time. To some people jealousy is just too much for them to handle. When someone is jealous of you, you will notice it since it is written all over the face. In some instances someone will discourage you or even utter hurting words.
Jealousy is a big threat to any relationship whatsoever. It is often confused with envy but jealousy is more strong and self destructive. When someone is jealous the personality changes and deteriorates with time unless effort is made to control it. People may be tempted to think that jealousy is experienced by people who lack but even those who have more than they need feel it too. In fact if anything, those who have feel it even more for fear of losing what they have. They fear being overtaken by others who might take their position.
In a relationship, it starts with little petty things like, hair style, clothing, social life, etc it becomes even worse when a person is too dependent on another. When someone withdraws support from the other, a feeling of desperation sets in which stirs up jealousy. Jealousy heightens mistrust in a relationship and hence an impudent behavior. In most circumstances when things get to such an extent, the relationship becomes sore to a suffocating extent of breaking up.
` When jealousy is too much in a person’s life, loss of self esteem is experienced. It belittles one’s sense of self integrity and purpose in life. It is dangerous since it is possible to do things that might lead to regrets later in life. Jealousy needs to be avoided at an early stage before it reaches a destructive stage. There are stages where the victim finds fault in everything that goes around. Instead of appreciating all the good things happening in life, he/she despises even the most precious things in life.

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