Have you ever feel envy of your closest friends? Envy is different than jealousy. Envy is something you wish you could do and be everything like them.
It's crazy, isn’t it? Your best friend shares some big news and you say all the right things and display the right emotions. But inside you’re burning up instead for feeling truly happy, you’re filled with uncontrollable envy but wait, it's NOT that you’re a bad person. You really want to feel happy for your friend. You really want to get rid of these feeling of envy.
But in the moment, you just can’t. you'd be worried. You feared that if you didn’t get over this feeling u might lose a very good friend. Worse, you might lose yourself and become a bitter person yg penuh dgn kebencian. It took quite some effort to finally come of the situation without ruining ur friendship or rosakkan jiwa kita. And sometimes when we want something so bad and find that our friend got it instead, it fills us up with envy.
Kita tak nak pun perasaan mcm ni, kita tak mintak. But it’s there. You need to get rid of these thoughts. Accept them for what they are. This is just a normal feelings that arise in a normal human being.
Someday you may realize that the reason you feel envious has little to do with the person who brought out the feelings. Semua ni setan je hasut. While u really can’t stop feeling a sense of envy every now and then, you can choose how you deal with it.
BE GREATFUL INSTEAD OF BEING ENVY OVER WHAT GOD HAS BLESSED OTHERS.