miércoles, 21 de noviembre de 2012

Envy and charity



If who is envious is encouraged to progress and the opposite of envy is love, then charitable feelings are disincentives to progress.

Envy is like a persecutory mother, who's after their children to study, work, fall in love, get married, have children (grandchildren for her).

Although they look pretty, envy is unfriendly and the mother may be better tolerated by those who observe but not with their children.

The desire to have what others have, to enjoy moods with others, we have to avoid shame, are also powerful stimuli for those not wishing deplete your worst imagination who provoke such attacks, but because they react by trying to imitate the objects of envy, taking as an example to follow, trying to get their achievements ... to stop suffering with envy.

Therefore, because of the envy we feel bad when others are fine. This must be the feeling that both justifies rejection of the envious: they have bad intentions toward a peer.

We might also think that there are situations that we would never want to live outside. I'm thinking of those unfortunate mishaps, misfortunes that inspire the fear that one day could happen to: poverty, disease, emotional losses.

Here comes something that is never sufficiently clarified. It is possible to deduce that if someone is upset because others seem happy, then will feel comforted when others seem unhappy.

However, when we look what are opposites (antonyms) to envy, we find words such as charity, nobility, conformity.

The conclusion is reached by the following:

Who is jealous is stimulated to progress;
The opposite of envy is love (1);
Who is feeling charitable, is discouraged to progress.

Note: Original in Spanish (without translation by Google): La envidia y la caridad
   

(This is the Article No. 1737)

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