ShiYun's blog response

Well, after reading from Shi Yun's blog about Jealousy, I began to think of the questions that she posted. She describes being jealous as a bad thing because it makes us do the things that we would not do and create a wall between us and that person:

 "Being jealous at someone is not a very good feeling. I felt very bad and trapped inside like I could not do anything else. When this happened, I started to develop the feeling of hatred and started to hate he/she. Jealousy just does not lead to good things and I think that we should be happy of what we have. We don't all have to have things sufficient to what others have. Having the feeling of jealousy just makes you look down at yourself and think that you are not as good."

 I agree with the fact that being jealous tends to create hatred. We envy people and jealousy develops. Jealousy is a common thing since everyone possess different things. We can look at someone's clothes and get jealous of that person. However, there are different levels of jealousy. If it's a friend jealousy, we can't completely hate them. It also depends on the person that we are jealous of. If we are jealous about some of their possession, and they kept on bragging about it and is acting very annoying in front of you even if they knew that you are jealous, of course extreme hatred can be developed.
          Most jealousy are more like a 5 minute jealousy. It doesn't lead to hatred unless the person is really unfortunate and is jealous of an extreme rich person. Another thing that ShiYun said was:

"I think we should just feel happy for what they have. Everyone is different and there are other problems that we have to worry about in life. We can't always face with these little problems that we have because if we don't learn how to over come them we can not face life problems that we have in life later on. We can not let the feeling of jealousy take over our minds and bother our everyday lives."

 I disagree with what she said right here. We are jealous because we aren't satisfied with what we have. Also, no one lets jealousy bother their daily life. They probably would say "I'm so jealous...." and then move on with their lives. That is what I usually do. Jealousy doesn't really take over our minds unless it cause us to steal things.