Envy
Envy is best defined as the emotion when someone lacks another's superior quality or possession, wishes for it or wishes the other lacks it. Envy can come from low self-esteem from a comparison threatening self-image.
Bertrand Russell said envy is a potent cause of unhappiness. It's a universal and unfortunate side of human nature, not only is the envier unhappy, but his misfortune inflicted on others. Russell also believed envy a driving force in democracy. It must be endured for a more just social system.
Envy and jealousy are used interchangeably, but have different definitions. Jealousy the fear of losing something to another, envy, the frustration of not having what another has.
The basis of all skill and work, we always choose our job because we want the wealth, fame and pleasure we see other's have, envy appears when one lacks, when he does not ask God for it or asks to spend it on his pleasures.
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