Jealousy is quite grating. It shortens our breath, builds up inherent inferiority, subconsciously makes us angry, and leads to envy. Sometimes, people who are incredibly jealous of another might desire to take someone's status and belongings, and become quite agressive almost instantaneously. Sadly, I would know, seeing of how I was jealous of my older brother for the longest time. It overtook my life, and made me bitter and petty, almost to a fault. It partially made me emotionally unstable, along with a lack of self-esteem. It saddens me so.



Who made you jealous growing up? Did you grow out of it? Thank you for reading this post.

I got jealous pretty easy when I was younger. I could not stand it if someone received better treatment than me. Of course, most of the time, I didn't outwardly express my dismay, which was probably worse since the resentment just built up. I got jealous in elementary school when another kid would be praised or given candy for doing something good, while I did the exact same and got nothing. I learned, however, that the point of doing good deeds isn't to get recognized, but to help someone or something. Another instance where I became jealous was when we were at recess playing soccer, and I would make a great pass to a teammate, who proceeded to score, and everyone went to the other guy and congratulated him and I recieved no attention. Yeah, I was an attention seeking brat in elementary school, and I still am sometimes, just not as much .

Maybe when I was a kid, and someone got a game I wanted or a console, but it was never to the point of hate or anything. Anymore, it's very tough for me to be jealous of someone. If someone does something that is really cool, I am happy for them more then anything. Now have I had people jealous of me? Yes, why? I don't know...it makes no sense on certain aspects.

No not really.   I had nothing to be jealous of.   My interpretation about something having something nicer or better things than me just generally means one or two things:
1. They earned it, and I can get it later on.
2.  They're parents bought them what they got(assuming it's a rich kid) and I just have to live with it.



I don't really get too jealous over something because half of the time I find it's a bad reason to hold a grudge. just saying.

I'm not going to lie there has been a few points where I have been of someone.....but, I felt it wasn't mature of me too. And always said to myself you have better features of your own, and don't go comparing yourself to other people. You are your own person, and special too keep remembering that. I constantly tell this to myself, and it helps in a lot of ways.

I'm sure I was at some point for one reason or another. My memory is so shot though, I can't really think of anything off of the top of my head.

More than anything, I'd just beat myself up over "not being good enough" over actually being jealous of someone. I would hardly ever be envious so much as just convince myself there was a reason why I didn't earn or deserve what they had / were getting. I'm still like that to some extent, but the majority of it I've managed to mature out of. If you can't learn to value yourself and the positive attributes you do have, no one else will either.

I would get jealous of other guys who had no challenges talking to girls. I was in middle school and I really didn't pay attention to dating or girls since I was focused on Boy Scouts, competitive soccer, and sports in general. I didn't get experience talking to girls so I had no idea what was going on in high school.

It didn't take long for me to figure that out and go out and meet chicks but the second half of 8th grade, I remember taking a school trip to Toronto and watching a friend make out with his girlfriend on the bus ride. It was night, it was dark, the parents were all at the front of the bus and they were kissing. I remember being super jealous and angry that I didn't get to do that.

A year later I had it figured out and had some girlfriends. I changed what I didn't like.

I used to get jealous of my friends all the time many years ago because they would usually be having more fun than I was. Thankfully that doesn't happen anymore since I'm more social and I have more to do to have fun in most situations.

Now most of the time I only get jealous of my younger brother because he gets a lot of attention from my parents almost constantly. When I try to have an important conversation with them my brother will interrupt and then my parents might get distracted or I'll feel like giving up and trying again later. Lately it hasn't been as bad though and I'm less jealous of my brother, he tries too hard to get the attention he gets anyway XD

Yes, I have been jealous before, more than once. I won't get into it too deeply, but the last time I was jealous it was over a girl (well, she was twenty three or four, so I guess I should say woman). Yeah, I thought I had something special with her but found out I was wrong and some other guy did apparently. Man I was so hurt and yes, jealous. Thankfully I got over it without Any detrimental effects other than some tears.

I don't tend to get jealous over possessions though. In fact I don't remember ever being jealous over anything but people.

I would not call it "jealousy", but I often feel envious of guys that are more cut and buffed than I am despite spending so much time at the gym. I recently met a trainer who said that my stats (body fat % and all) are all pretty good, but I know I can do better.

I'm not usually jealous... Im more protective over what I have.

Of course, Im more talking relationship-wise over, say, a game or something someone else had and I dont.

The only time that I've been jealous that I can think of is when my current boyfriend, wasnt my boyfriend, and he started dating someone else. This was waaay back. A little over 2 years ago.

At that time I really liked him and I didn't want anyone else to have him. And then someone did. I was pretty jealous. But I suppose I was also being protective, even though I didnt have him at that time.

Hm… There were a few times in the past when I was jealous of some random stuff… I'd look outside during class and there would be people playing and I'd think how wonderful it would be to be basking in the sun instead of listening to the instructors repeat themselves yet again. As soon as they moved on to a new topic though, the jealousy would dissipate. rofl Other times, I'd be kind of jealous of the people that had assigned seats in the back of the classroom, because I pretty much always sat near the instructor so I couldn't draw like the people in the back could. =/ Now that I think about it, I wasn't often jealous but when I was, it was mostly over trivial things like that. lol I didn't exactly have anyone that I needed to look up to and I was the one that set the standards (and got punished if something went wrong as well oO;; ), so I was often too busy to think about "meeting expectations" or be worried about "being better than so and so." I left that to my peers. If anything, people would sometimes get annoyed with me... ^^0

I would not call it jealousy, but I did felt slight envy and at the same time adoration towards a boy I liked. He was always positive, even when life was at its worst for him, and I wanted to be exactly like that. I wanted to remain happy and smiling even when life brought me down, just like him. 

I think it's normal to be jealous of someone every now and then.

I know I'm quite the jealous person, mostly for dumb and stupid reasons, but still.
Like whenever someone eats a chocolate bar that I love I just wish I were in their shoes eating the damn thing

Now I am able to get over my jealousy fairly quickly but it still happens quite often.