Western culture doesn’t even want to be jealous. If the woman were to drag her “Adam’s betrayal” throughout history, envy had to carry the stigma of why 8 80 killed Abel throughout history. phrase “you’re worse than 8 8. ” A phrase often cast on young children, either simply to censor their behavior or to describe a third person.
Moreover, it is one of the deadly sins associated with greed, and a clear reason for confession. Outside the religious sphere, historical accounts of life in the Middle Ages are filled with murders born of the desire to occupy the power of a certain occupied person. Without going so far in time, envy is one of the feelings that is not usually lacking in the facts in which we meet long-time people and we speak of ornate wanderers in the context of lives told with touch.
“Envy is a declaration of inferiority. -Napoleon-
There are two reasons why envy has survived as one of the most powerful motivations, and it has not fallen into the field that imposes natural selection on what damages or jeopardizes the future of a species, in this case ours.
The first has to do with its usefulness to indicate goals or objectives, envy acts as a highlighter of reality and highlights what we want and even, even in rare situations, what we need, so envying someone who has a certain job can tell us our vocation, because what we know about him through the person who executes him fascinates us.
Envy indicates not only desire for objects, but also in relation to skills, attitudes and forms of behavior Are there people who have this gift of adapting to all environments, are there others who have the gift of enlightening with their presence, others to bring calm, others who listen?
Seeing the effects of some form of being can motivate us to try to imitate it.
Envy is also closely related to jealousy. Along with the fear of loss, envy emphasizes that we need the attention of those around us, we have needed it since we were little. Envy is therefore one of the most complicated feelings to face when a new family member arrives.
With this we link the second positive reason why there must be envy, this reason has to do with motivation. You may think that this is not a noble motivation because it rarely overcomes selfish interest, but it is a motivation after all, as we have already said, we can see how a loving person behaves and envy the effects he obtains with his attitude. Thus, comparing the effects of this way of behaving with reality can lead us to roll up our backs to improve the lives of others.
Obviously, attitude doesn’t have to be positive. We think that we work long hours for how little we get and then realize that many of our colleagues leave before work and that it has no consequences, so it will not be difficult to end up choosing to imitate their behavior.
Often envy does not arise from an element in itself, but from the effects that this element has on reality, there are people who envy others because they have a very modern, powerful and striking car, in fact many people do not envy this car, what they envy is the state in which the car finds its owner. They envy having an object that tells the world they have money and influence.
In fact, there is research that many people would not buy a phone of a certain brand if they were forced to use it with a casing that covers the manufacturer’s identification, something complicated to recognize because, like envy, association with brands speaks to people as emotional beings, while what most people want is to be rational.
Envy reminds us that we are emotional beings, while most people appreciate rational things more.
In fact, many of the justifications we will use for our behaviors have nothing to do with the main motivation for such behaviors, before buying the cell phone we do not see if the battery lasts more or less, even perhaps the technical characteristics show that it is minor, however, if we then prove that they have an acceptable duration and ask for it, we will easily place that reason among the purchase options.
One of the biggest problems that envy can cause us is to create barriers to our ability to appreciate the things we have, it can capture our own attention to such an extent that it makes us lose sight of everything and only makes us see the reduced and poor Vision of a single tree, not the whole forest. A tree that, moreover, we often cannot choose.
In addition, envy becomes a rodent of our lives when it deepens the feeling of dissatisfaction that we all tell to a greater or lesser extent. This quest, this need to continue climbing, often motivated by envy, does not cease.
Envy is a feeling, like so many others, that gives us energy and information so that we can control it, so it becomes harmful when it takes control and attracts attention, preventing us from enjoying all the good that we have.