Why Hate or Envy?

Why hate if you know you got it all? Is it normal to hate on someone? What does one gain or get out of it? Why hate on another human being for doing something that even you too can do? Why hate someone because you can’t be them?

When we see someone looking all ravishing and happy, we just assume that their life is perfect, and for some instead of being happy for the person, we always hate them for their hard work, not knowing that success don’t come easy. Nothing comes on a silver platter.

Sometimes we just hate because we can’t be them, even if they don’t have much… We hate because of the potential we see in the person, because they are hardworking and we can see they have a lot ahead of them, so we feel intimidated. Hate/envy does not destroy the person you hate, it destroys you who is hating, it destroys your inner self, it destroys the happiness you could have in your life, it destroys you completely.

You won’t have time for yourself but you will always be minding what the other person is busy with.

But do you know that while you are busy hating on that person, you are also busy giving them more reasons to work harder and prove that they are so much better than you, who is hating? And sometimes it does not have to be like that.

We have to ask ourselves why we are hating and what we gain out of it. I’m sure if you ask yourself that then you won’t ever find relevant reasons. Hating won’t build you, it won’t change or hurt the person you are hating, it only makes them stronger.

It totally makes you miserable that every time you hear something about the person, it will just make you sick of them, but if it hurts you when you hear their success then why always keep track of their life activities? It just doesn’t make any sense at all.

Love yourself unconditionally, accept that you are not perfect, accept that it’s not OK to hate. It shows how weak you can be, and seems like you don’t have anything better to do with your life.

Try and figure out your talents or your hobby, take it up as a challenge, work towards it every day of your life. Build some image on how/where you would like to be in a few years or shorter period of time, appreciate yourself and accept your flaws and that you can’t be someone else but yourself.

You have to choose whether to do better or live in a miserable life wishing and making yourself old by hating on and envying someone else’s life. You can never be someone else, just work on the type of person you are.

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