Response to - Jealousy

When people are jealous, it isn't always bad. Jealously leads the human life. In a quote from Max'd,

    I then found out another ASTI kid wrote about this blog. Looking at their two blogs, I read something that I have never even thought of before. Jealousy. They talk about how being jealous makes us all these things, "Being jealous is a dangerous feeling in my opinion. It can lead to depression, angriness, and other unwanted feelings" Along with this they discuss how instead of feeling like this they should be thinking about how grateful they are for things. I was a little puzzled by this. How is being jealous the same thing as being grateful.

   He describes being jealous as a dangerous feeling in his opinion. I think its a good thing to be jealous in life. First of all, it is a feeling of being alive. The only way you can be jealous is if your still alive. Second of all, being jealous just drives humans to work harder. If your jealous of your peer for reading about a hundred pages more than you, you would work harder to read more than him. People like to gloat, and in order to gloat, they have to be better than their competition. People often cheat when they are jealous, however. They give up and don't believe they can achieve what other people have achieved, so they turn to cheating. This is one con of jealousy. It causes people to do things they would have never done if they weren't worse than someone. Jealousy, Max describes it, can lead to depression, angriness, and other unwanted feelings, but if people are jealous, it just pushes them to work harder. It is a great experience in life. When someone runs a mile in three minutes, the next person would want to run faster than the first person in order to be noticed. Jealousy causes people to achieve more. 
   However, another downfall for jealousy is hatred. When someone is jealous of another, they would hate the person until they are better than them. They would focus on achieving higher than that person than talking to them. Talking to them just reminds them to work and work, to step up.
   Jealousy can lead to good achievements and bad occurrences, but I see jealousy as a driving force to human life. It makes them want to work harder.