It’s okay to be jealous sometimes – there’s always someone who has it better than you. This is not true. Jealousy helps no one. Jealousy is an evil that takes over many people’s minds. People think that jealousy will not negatively affect them, but they do not think that jealousy will lead to anger envy and hate. While it is true, that there always is someone who has things better together than you, but they may be lacking something you have which you should be thankful for. Emerson wrote in Self-Reliance, “There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.”
People don’t deserve nice things unless they work for them. This is true. If two men are working for the same goal and both men achieve the goal while one of them puts in little work, is it fair? Marching band serves as a prime example. There are about one hundred and fifty people looking to achieve the same goal. However, on most days, only about twenty of those people work to make themselves, each other, and the program better. Through all the hard work those twenty people did, if the band scores first place in a competition, everyone receives the same praise and satisfaction, however those who worked deserve the prize more than those who did not.
You don’t know what you’re capable of until you try. This is true. So many people miss opportunities in life because they believed that they were not capable. Many people, when applying for college, tend to not apply for schools such as Yale and Harvard because they think they will never get in. As it would happen, those schools are accepting more and more people who apply because of the fact that hardly anyone applies for them.
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