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What makes you jealous and how do you deal with it?
Very little, and nothing in the material sense. There's no material item I could possibly want that I could not have, with enough time and effort to obtain it.
In the realm of the immaterial, however... yes. There are things that I have, on occasion, envied others. Ordinary childhoods. Happy families. Normal lives. A total lack of destitution and the need to go to the last resort. Yes, mundanity does, on occasion, seem highly enviable to me...
How do I deal with it? I remind myself first that my choices (where I had a choice, and the circumstances were not imposed on me) were made a long time ago and there is no way back after all these years, even did I really wish it; and secondly, how purely bored I would rapidly become with a life of mundanity.
The jealousy soon passes.
Very little, and nothing in the material sense. There's no material item I could possibly want that I could not have, with enough time and effort to obtain it.
In the realm of the immaterial, however... yes. There are things that I have, on occasion, envied others. Ordinary childhoods. Happy families. Normal lives. A total lack of destitution and the need to go to the last resort. Yes, mundanity does, on occasion, seem highly enviable to me...
How do I deal with it? I remind myself first that my choices (where I had a choice, and the circumstances were not imposed on me) were made a long time ago and there is no way back after all these years, even did I really wish it; and secondly, how purely bored I would rapidly become with a life of mundanity.
The jealousy soon passes.