General Question? Why do you think it's unhealthy to be envy of someone?
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Honestly,you shouldn't envy anyone. i totally agree with ur question. i wonder that myself and being a female, i dont' have a lot of female friends because when u get those jealous ones, they like to run they mouth about secrets u tell them or tell lies on you. you should be happy with what you have and someone likes you for what u have, the way you look, and the way u dress. to me that is all materialistic. if they can't like your heart, it ain't worth it. real friends are hard to come by, trust me i know.
It is all abut degree.
You can wish you had what you friend has, but it shouldn't consume you.
It need not start with envy but if you let it get the best of you it could become unhealthy.
I see 2 different questions here... #1: it is unhealthy to be envious because it is a bad characteristic to have. Constantly being envious will make you desire something you can't have or desire the wrong things. This will make you a very miserable person. You need to focus on all of the wonderful things that you do have.
#2: Why is it that a lot of females are envious of their female friends? I do not know why. I am female and I have never had a lot of female friends. Most of my friends are guys. I am not the envious type. I don't think you can be a true friend to someone if you are envious of them all the time and vice versa. That doesn't sound like true friendship. I am very picky with who I am friends with. I make friends with "real" people, not fake ones.
Unfortunately, our human nature gets in the way sometimes. We are a society based on egocentricity, we're always seeking for our own wants and desires, and we hardly ever put any one else's needs before our own. And our human nature tells us that to desire and to want is always a good thing, but I don't think this is at all true. When we start realizing in life that we can't always have what we want, then maybe we can also start to appreciate more of what we already have. And when we can appreciate others more, then maybe it will help to take all of our focus off of only ourselves. This will help us be better friends to each other. No one wants a friend who only thinks about herself all the time. The Bible teaches us how to change our focus on good things, and then we can start to change our attitudes and friendships for the better.
I think that it usually takes that path because they were envious of some attribute or some other unobtainable thing .
What you can do, is to take that emotion and use it to your advantage.Your neighbhor has a BLANK Well good for them now if I were to go back to school,work a little overtime,spend more time with my family,donate your time for the community ect. ect.
This may not get you the BLANK but you and I will be better off for the effort
because God made it so.
one of the 10 commandments states:though shall not covet thy neighbor.
it is so right.people who are jealous get the things they were jealous of, and then get jealous of something else!
Envy is very unhealthy. Some one once told me when we compare ourselves to other people we always compare our worst qualities to their best qualities. When you look at it that way it isn't really a fair race. We rarely look at the great things about ourselves that other people could potentially envy. I think that people just need to accept who they are and embrace the differences in themselves.
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