Man is a creature with thoughts and feelings. His physical needs like eating and sleeping are similar to those of animals. However, it is his thoughts, speech and public emotions that mark his humanity and differentiate him from other creatures. man is able to be kind, feel compassion and have other noble feelings towards his fellow humans. Man, however, also has unpleasant emotions namely hatred, cruelty and jealousy.

Jealousy is a negative emotion. To be jealous means to be envious of someone or to feel unhappy because one desires to possess something which another person has.

The feeling that a jealous person bears towards another is not a good one. It is born out of envy, resentment and ill will towards the other.

For example, a student may be jealous of a friend's good looks and grades. It usually does not matter to him that the friend may have taken the trouble to make himself pleasant or he may have studied hard to deserve his good grades. All it matters to him is that he is envious that the other person has the thing, position or attribute he wants. The jealous person feels unhappy that other party has something that he desires.

Being jealous reflects a person's immaturity. Jealousy can lead to negative actions. A jealous person may slander his rival in love. Sometimes, he may even resort to violence.

Even nations may be jealous of other nations and go to war against them. A dictator in a poor nation, faced with a dissatisfied populace, may go to war against a prosperous neighbouring country out of jealousy and to solve his own country's problems. A coporation losing business to another company may resort to dirty tactics against that company to win back their customers. Much unhappiness and suffering occurs when jealous parties resort to immoral acts against innocent parties whome they are envious of.

In popular literature and films, we often hear of the jealous lover. having lost his beloved ones affections, he may give full vent to his feelings of hate and resort to ways to harm his rival and win his loved one at all costs. This scenario often forms the plot of many love melodramas in fil. The audience is kept in suspense about the jealous person's future evil actions and this drives the film or plot along. Usually, the evil, jealous person will obtain is just desserts and be punished in the end as no one loves a jealous person.

Provided a jealous person does not resort to evil, some good may come our of a jealous state. A person who is jealous about his love rivial or his prosperous business rival may be spurred on to improve himself or his firm efficiency to be better than the other.

Jealousy will always be with the common man. A person become a better person when he does not allow jealousy to control him.

So this passage is just trying to tell me that I am not a good person cause I let jealousy take its toll on me.

How cool!

Okay, should not be sarcastic cause it does have it points too.

If you didn't realized what I have just realized.
People like ME who have super deee duper low self esteem tend to get jealous more easily.
Because they will tend to think that the other party is so much better than them as they are so pessimistic about themselves.

Emotion barrier, I guess.