A SIMPLE PSYCOLOGICAL PROCESS OF JEALOUSY
Written by Joseph Schell
this writing is not revised.
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This document is dedicated to Kyle Hoffmann, who came to me with the suggestion of tackling this topic. So in the event that this whole thing turns out to be crap, blame him.


"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Jealousy is the driving force behind so many insane and malicious actions that it might just be satans pervese will manifest in thought. Jealousy is the thought that one harbors when one expects something he cannot get, and sees something one cannot attain. Essentialy, then, jealousy is really rooted in another key mindset, greed.

When someone becomes jealous, this is usualy because one or more of a few key factors.

1. They already harbor animosity towards the person or circumstance
2. They are in a state of unstable emotional stress, which leads to unrealistic thinking
3. They expected to gain something in place of a given person or circumstance (they feel cheated)
4. They have been betrayed and cannot retaliate, assuming retaliation was thier desire.

The most common form of jealousy is number one, in which one already holds a sense of animosity toward someone or something. In this case, someone is angered by his enemy whenever his enemy is happy. One sees happiness in his foe as proof that his foe has come accross something it does not deserve in the eyes of the jealous one. Anger built around this sense of unfair blessing commonly leads to acts of maliciousness against the protagonist, ranging from thoughts in one's head to murder. While all four of the main jealousy-catalysts can lead to the same or similar acts, factor one most often does.

Often times jealous people do not become jealous for just one of the reasons I mentioned. Often times more than one catalyst are combined, and the most common combination of them occours when one feels cheated, and falls into an unstable emotional state, or vise-versa. When in a dual (or more) state of jealous animosty, one can often begin to affect his or her life merely by keeping the mindset around. This jealousy grows to such proportion that it eventualy consumes them, leading to revenge and enhanced thoughts of greed (in an attempt to justify compensation for thier greif, besides just geting what originaly sparked the injustice.)

Jealousy is not a thought process unto itself. it is a bundle of thoughts comprised as one state of mind. Three of these we have already mentioned, those being greed, revenge, and anger. Also included are a myriad of other sub-thoughts, things like lust, egotism, selfishness, pride, hate, etc etc. Without these thoughts, jealousy is nothing. jealousy is an open-armed invitation for a person to become the very essence of evil. To become something that hates, something that conspires, something that becomes self rightous and greedy.

Jealousy could very well be satan's will manifest.