Envy Not

One of the most destructive forces in the world is envy.  Lives have been destroyed, families crushed and fortunes lost all for the sake of wanting what belongs to someone else.  Show me someone who is enjoying their life and I will show you a person who does not waste time and effort on envying the lives and possessions of others.  But show me someone with an obsession and I will show you envy.  Envy insists on equality of results.  It is preoccupied with having what others have or taking what they have away from them.  It plots and schemes for what it wants.  To accomplish its goal, envy will do anything; lie, cheat, steal, even murder is not out of the question.  But in arriving where envy though it wanted to be, it discovers there is always someone else to envy.  And so, envy begins again…