What does envy feel like?

[Willamena]

What does envy feel like? Can you describe it?

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I think it can only be felt if it is allowed to become all embracing.
envy is both natural and self destructive.

 

[Buttercup]

What does envy feel like? Can you describe it?

Longing, preoccupying, unsettling, deflating.

 

[ChristineES]

You have a deep longing for something someone else has. It should not control you, though. That would be very unhealthy

 

[Wandered Off]

IMO, it feels no different from any other kind of wanting something. The only difference lies in who "owns" the object of want.

 

[Willamena]

IMO, it feels no different from any other kind of wanting something. The only difference lies in who "owns" the object of want.

Do you own all the objects you want? How do you know if you've felt envy, then?

 

[Wandered Off]

Do you own all the objects you want? How do you know if you've felt envy, then?

Of course not. I didn't intend to imply that by my answer. As you subtly point out, I wouldn't be able to offer any answer besides "I have no idea" were that the case.

 

[eudaimonia]

Envy feels green. Oh, but now you want to know what green feels like.

I can only relate envy to you in terms of feelings you may already have experience with. Envy is a kind of frustrated longing, and may involve some measure of hatred for the person who owns what you do not. It is a very unpleasant feeling, and one I was careful to nip in the bud in my early twenties. I decided that it is better to congratulate and admire others for their success, and to focus on my own character to produce my own success, and to view my glass as half full in any case.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Willamena]

Follow up question: How do we learn what envy is? Yes, people can relate "what they feel," but how do we know, once we've "learned" it, that it's that we're experiencing?

 

[eudaimonia]

Follow up question: How do we learn what envy is? Yes, people can relate "what they feel," but how do we know, once we've "learned" it, that it's that we're experiencing?

I think we know it through context. When we realize that what we feel has to do with a desire for the possessions or qualities of another, we know that we are feeling envy.

I don't think we need to telepathically compare this feeling to anyone else's. It's enough to associate whatever one feels with the context.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Scuba Pete]

What does envy feel like? Can you describe it?

I'll have to ask those around me!

 

[Random]

It is empowering, and inspiring. It is like a godly nectar, the sweetest of all poisons promising a certain, but painless, quiet and dignified death.

It feels like GOD, and is one of His outstanding attributes. Envy is like a good woman with bad morals. Or a bad man with good morals. Or a priest, a patriarch.

It is the monster of Hate and Anger, both incredibly potent energies.

:flirt: < It is like that smiley right there...

 

[Ozzie]

What does envy feel like? Can you describe it?

Residual lust for an unobtainable object of desire possessed by someone you find desirable.

 

[YmirGF]

What does envy feel like? Can you describe it?

I haven't the foggiest idea Willy. I don't envy others and have never fallen into this self-created trap (Edit: In my adult life.) I certainly don't envy those who do.

 

[Buttercup]

I haven't the foggiest idea Willy. I don't envy others and have never fallen into this self-created trap. I certainly don't envy those who do.

You've never felt envy even once in your life? :areyoucra Are you sure? Not even when you were young and immature? :flirt:

 

[Bathsheba]

You've never felt envy even once in your life? :areyoucra Are you sure?

Yeah, that seems highly unlikely that anybody can go through life and not experience envy.

 

[YmirGF]

You've never felt envy even once in your life? :areyoucra Are you sure? Not even when you were young and immature? :flirt:

It was so long ago ButteryCups. Of course I know what it is like, what I am saying is that it isn't something I have put ANY energy into for decades.

Statement edited for clarity. Is that better?