Green With Envy
It’s always baffled me when a person I’ve highly admired has been boiling on the inside of themselves with an anger against me because they are green with envy. In fact, when I first recognized this trait about someone I admired, I felt a deep hurt about it.
It’s extremely disappointing for me to find that someone I admire, love, and care a great deal about is actually envious of me. It means that the two of us cannot truly be friends. It means that the person has a deep-seated animosity against me which they cannot smolder.
Once I’ve seen the look of envy register within the eyes of a person I know, I know that the relationship is over, even if it hasn’t really begun. It’s over because comparison is the thief of joy, and there can be no joy in the relationship if the person is too green with envy against me.
I have learned far too many times that friendship with an envious person just doesn’t happen. There is no friendship with a person who envies you. That person is not even a friend. If anything, that person is a competitor, and they compete for your very life. If they cannot have your life, they will take it from you, and that might be physically, spiritually, or emotionally.
In my experience, you cannot be friends with someone who wants your life or wants to be you, and if you are around this person long enough, you will see that there is often no limit that they won’t go to for the destruction of their competitor. You are the envious person’s competitor, and they want to eliminate any competition. They want to eliminate you.
A person who often hates you is green with envy.
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