Do you find that the average human being has a tendency to always try to justify someone Else's achievements or successes as a fruitless goal?
When someone is richer, prettier,smarter, has a bigger house a nicer wife etc. even when you are missing an arm they are envious if you have something or someone worthwhile, why do you think that this is?
I am aware of the Latin Fable essentually saying that the wolf wanted desperately and tried his hardest to reach the grapes on the tree (vine) and when he couldn't do so he said that he hated grapes.
Have you noticed this too, if so when and in what situation?
2007-12-26 13:08:49 · 7 answers · asked by Soundproof 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thank you for all of your well thought out answers. It is very hard to pick just one of you, more than 3 Best Answers should be allowed here.
2008-01-02 15:29:20 · update #1
Empress Jan, - I agree
Aidan 4oz, - Your experience has been unfortunate.
Rainee, - Good point.
Arron..OD, - It is sad that the cynic should survive and I refute this with all of my being :)
SusyQ, - Excellent point my friend and you have put this subject matter into a good perspective.
Thank you all again.
2008-01-02 15:40:28 · update #2
And what is jealousy? It's all about the fear of inadequacy.. and insecurity. Toxic people... their comments, if not overt, are shrouded in sarcasm. Just remember... this is their problem, not yours.. and you have the power to control it by either walking away.. or detaching yourself mentally. What people don't seem to understand is that there's no shortfall of joy! It's not a commodity to be traded but a torch that can brighten the way. What I've learned, if nothing else.... it's simply more fun on the sunny side of the street with people who 'choose' to celebrate life.. and be kind:)
2007-12-29 05:50:59 · answer #1 · answered by guess who at large 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Much like the fox that couldn't reach the grapes deciding that they were sour, some people (not all) make a great effort, it appears, to belittle everything around them that they don't have themselves. If you are talented it is not something worth doing or they could do it better if they chose to (they never do); if you are prettier they say you are not 'all that' or accuse you of conceit: if you are smarter, you're a 'know it all'; and so it goes. To me this behaviour in someone only demonstrates their own inadequacies. and ignorance. Be proud of yourself and let those people wallow in their own misery!
2007-12-29 09:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by suzyQ™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you were the creator of a species, supervised its evolution, or were just an evolved organism you would not survive by having a tendency to agree with the course of events. It is the cynic who survives, the ones who find errors in everything, who see that nothing is how it should be and bend everything to their wills.
2007-12-26 14:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beyond envy & greed, most people feel that they live in a world of scarity & that if you have it they have somehow lost it. We have been raised from birth to compete with each other for the prize, to always be the winner. Subconsciously, they feel if you have it, it is lost to them. Win at all cost, get to the top of the rat pile, then you have made it. Oh, & be sure you get it & not share, to give to someone else is to lose for you.
2007-12-26 13:59:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it's jealousy, sometimes envy. Sometimes, dissatisfaction with their own lives.
It's easier to find fault with someone else than to find fault with yourself.
I've seen it, gone through it. My DIL hates one of my grandchildren because her children "can't compare" so she finds fault with everything the one does, says, thinks....its pitiful. The same DIL will come and talk with me, occasionally, and I'll mention something I'd like to do, or something I'd planned to make, and voila! The next day she goes, or buys, the very thing we were talking about, but one step up.
I often wonder, if people were content to be themselves what would this life be like?
2007-12-26 13:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jealosy is an evil that lurks inside all of us. Nothing is ever good enough it seems. Rare is the person that is happy with whom they are and what they have. It's a competition thing, sadly....sad for us as humans
2007-12-26 13:16:42 · answer #6 · answered by Empress Jan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
jealousy.
2007-12-26 16:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by inkgddss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋