Omg... I'm so jealous of you right now.

Auticorn

Auticorn

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    I'm putting my first response under a spoiler because it's a bit personal. ^^; Don't judge me please. ;o;

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    I also get a little jealous of people here who have best/close friends too. I'm not very social, and I tend to push people away with my awkwardness and being overly random. I guess I'm just horrible at communicating socially with people. Half the people I've met end up not talking to me because I said something they can't respond to. I think it's something that does terrify me because I feel as though that person will stop liking me if I keep being random, weird and awkward towards them. So, I'm obviously really jealous of people that can socialize easily here without much trouble with social shyness and other factors. :c

    So, what about you? Do you get jealous/envious of others? What are some things you get jealous/envious of? Why (if there is a why)?

    I made this serious because it is a somewhat serious topic, considering the things I mentioned above I guess. *shrug*
     
    I can be jealous of how my friends can do more things than me because they have more money. Or with me because I have to be up at 4am to get ready for work I try to be in bed by 9pm. So that kind of limits me to how late I can stay out. I just feel like I can do more if I had more money.
     
    I can be pretty jealous when other writers in various sites get more notes/kudos/favorites/comments. I know there are people that say they enjoy my writing and I appreciate that very much, but I see various writers can get like 50 kudos or more on almost all their stories along with comments while only a few of mine barely can get 30 and little comments. =x

    Like Catie-chan, I can get jealous too of my friends able to do stuff because they have more money or they're more successful in general. Makes me feel like I'm way behind and such.
     
    I always said that out of the seven deadly sins, envy fit me best. Not proud of it, I hate comparing myself to others but I can't stop :< I'd love to be less envious.
     
    I...generally don't get jealous of others, actually. I suppose I wish I could be a little less me sometimes; who doesn't? Maybe I'd like to be similar to people I know and respect in some fashion sometimes, because of course I respect them for a reason, most likely a quality that I wish I had more (or less!) of in myself. It'd be nice not to have my problems for a bit, you know? That's natural, unless you're supremely self-confident to the point of arrogance or phenomenally narcissistic - or you just never think about - I think everyone feels this to some degree. It's part of being human.

    But I woudn't really say I was jealous of them; I don't resent them for the things that make them who they are, and I don't see the point in comparing myself to others - it's either going to give me a massive superiority or inferiority complex, and neither is necessarily warranted. These qualities I like in other people - which I probably don't state anywhere near enough - are part of what makes them who are they; to me they'd be meaningless because they'd have a completely different meaning...and I'm inherently dissatisfied with myself, and nothing would change that. Jealousy certainly wouldn't. I have things I'm good at, they have things they're good at. There will always be someone you feel is better at something than you, or better off than you...just as there are people who aren't as good at something as you, or who are worse off than you. I don't see why jealousy has to naturally follow the former; it serves no purpose whatsoever and generally leads to more discontentment and dissatisfaction in oneself, and in my experience there is more than enough of that without factoring in how you think you measure up to others.

    tl;dr no, my personal problems are my personal problems, and I don't feel the need to resent other people for not having them, or for being able to do certain things better than I can. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses; I'm too busy focusing on my own weaknesses to worry about other people's strengths.

    I'm too self-centered to be jealous, basically.
     
    In real life, yeah. I am jealous of co-workers who have it better than me without doing anything extra. I'm jealous of people who were born into riches. Do I let it bother me? No, I have accepted that things aren't perfectly balanced and fair in the world and that there is always going to be someone prettier than you, someone richer than you, someone who always gets the benefit of the doubt more than you do, etc. You just have to make the most of what you have. Besides, there is probably someone jealous of you ;p

    Online? No I am not jealous of anyone.
     
    People who can get a lot done, either because they have energy throughout the day and can accomplish lots of things regardless of what their situation is, or because they've got a good situation where they don't have to waste a lot of their time on menial stuff, or because they have long stretches where they aren't bombarded with distractions and interruptions. I don't have as much time as I normally need to build up the willpower and energy to do things. Sometimes all I can do is just be on the computer or whatever, doing something stationary or that doesn't require investing a certain amount of time (like this site) because I can just stop any time, or rather, because I might have to stop because of something beyond my control.
     
    I find myself more inspired by others rather than jealous. It drives me to work harder to achieve my own success.

    Though as silly as it sounds I do sometimes get a bit jealous over insignificant things; i.e that one person who eats chocolate at a moment when I can't.
     
    i'm so relieved i'm not the only one feeling this way haha

    but yeah, i get jealous quite easily i've noticed. rather than just the feeling of being jealous however, i have a massive tendency to get extremely down on myself for not doing as well as others, when in my eyes i've gotten the same or even better opportunity to make something of myself... and yet, i just. haven't. and i feel it's more through inactivity than inability (or so i hope), which, again, makes it even more my own fault.
     
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