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Jealousy and envy are normal human emotions. While jealousy is highly negative emotion with no trace of any positivity in it , Envy up to a level is positive ,thereafter it also becomes highly negative. This distinction is explained hereunder
There are views that jealousy in normal doses what they call fleeting and occasional is a normal behavior while envy is not. In my view it is not true. I very strongly hold the view that jealousy whether in low dose or high dose causes resentment. Jealousy is all negativity. No streak of positivity is there.

Envy on the other hand has shades of positivity. Envy in normal doses in my view is a normal behavior. I may term it benign .In this benign form It may serve as a spur to excel through one's own work. However, once it goes into high doses ,it becomes highly negative like jealousy. it does become malicious .

If you have Jealousy, you indirectly admit that you feel inferior to the person the target of your jealousy.. Jealousy in one's heart is the cause of downfall. It is a self degrading tendency; don't allow it to drag you down. It kills your personality and clouds your thinking. You can't be rational in your thoughts. Stay away from it. It causes resentment towards other people's success. It says I want to have what you have but I don't want you to have it.

As against this Envy says you have it, I also want to have what you have. Envy as a matter of fact may ignite passion to work hard and also achieve what the other person has without having a thought that the other person should not have it "Every time a friend succeeds ,I die a little" so said Gore Vidal, an American writer and political critic; it is jealousy.

Feeling envious of someone implies admiration and a wish to be in their place. In envy the person envied is an object of admiration; it therefore should serve as model of emulation. But you are jealous when you are insecure, have a feeling of inadequacy and scared of losing something or someone.

Advice to readers
1. Curb your jealousy
2. Be envious rather than be jealous
( If this topic arouses interest -I may come out with another write up on this .Readers may find envy being described as a very negative emotion in almost all the self Help /Motivational book-even Brian Tracy terms it as highly negative-I wrote to him about my view that is contrary to his -but he has not replied back-I have devoted full one chapter in my book Failure is a knock on the door of success--Those interested my read my book )

S.S.A.Zaidi

Retd Banker ;Author &;Motivational speaker
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