Jealousy Or Envy?

January 19, 2014 at 2:27pm

Jealousy is an extremely important psychology of human beings. If a nation has too many jealous people that nation is bound to head in the wrong direction.

Envy and Jealousy- although often used interchangeably are different in way that unlike envy, jealousy will create all sort of barriers to the victim's welfare. Hence, a society with more and more jealous people must degrade day by day. 

Illustration:
India is a good tourist attraction. An envy nation will try to make that nation as attractive as India, where as a Jealous nation will try the same thing but also at the same time make sure that INDIA get in all sort of troubles and lose its attractiveness. This in turn damage bilateral relationship between the nations and down both the country. To make a country beautiful, we need lesser jealous people and thus this discussion may be very useful. 

Envy is usually between two people, it follows this way: 
Person A has item X 
Person B don't have item X but B longs for item X 
Person B become envious to person A. 

Jealousy is usually three person thing as such: 

Person A love X 
Person B and X shows intimacy 
Person A is afraid, s/he might lose X because of B 
Person A become jealous of B 
Note, in this case, Person A is not limited to envy(just want to hold possession of X) but also try everything to make sure that B is not successful in getting hold of X. Thus B may become enemy of A and vice versa. 

So, jealousy- regardless of amount or form -positive/negative(there is no positive about jealousy as discussed above) is not acceptable. Positive form of envy may be good. 

Another example - with politics: 

Political party A has X amount of followers
 Political Party B don't have X amount of followers but it longs for that. 
Political Party B become envious to Political Party A. 

Actions of Political Party B would be to improve its activities to gain popularity and hold X amount of followers. 

Now look at the scenario: 

Political party A has X amount of followers 
Political Party B don't have X amount of followers but it ls gaining popularity amongst X 
Political Party A become JEALOUS to Political Party B fearing that it might lose its X amount of followers.. 

Political Party A would try to improve its activities to retain popularity among X and moreover, it would try to defame, spread propaganda and all sort of evil means to down Party B. 
This will adversely affect mass general population and create enmity among the followers due to SNOW BALL effect. 

So Jealousy in politics is not acceptable. 

-Syed Kollol, 2014