The Uses and Disadvantages of Envy or Jealousy.

The positive use of Envy appears when one sees a skill or product that someone else has and it motivates one to pursue with vigour the achievement or obtaining of the product or level of skill presented before one's self in short this it the spark of ambition to be better than before that can come from without oneself. The detrimental use of Envy is to attempt to disparage the person with superior ability or achievement by way of the very advantage the other has over the accuser. This sort of behaviour is a cowardly resentment of those who do not conform to the lowest common example drawn from the morass of the accuser's clique of associates. To the one derided it shows only weakness and the pathos of distance between themselves and the All-Too-Human. Another disadvantage has already been well explored by Peter H. Gilmore in his essay Green Eyed Hamsters in The Satanic Scriptures. It would do one well to pick up his work for a further explanation which I can only aspire to the level of skill of his writing. When I read this book I am inspired to improve myself as a writer.

Take what you can of use from this and work to improve your own life.