Jealousy, Our Greatest Curse

"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."

-William Penn

When I began to read the first book of Samuel, I started to think about jealousy. Jealousy is one of the worst feelings people have. It is the feeling of wanting others possessions. The feeling of envy towards others. And because of this, we want the worse for those people who posses what we want but can't have. Jealousy leads people to committing terrible acts towards the people they feel envy of. This terrible feeling has always existed and it has caused terrible conflicts, killed many, and cause greast devastations. It has lead groups or nations to make wars and create conflicts among each other.
For example, in the First Book of Samuel, I was able to see that Saul was jealous of David. "12) And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul." (1 Samuel 18: 12). Saul felt a huge envy towards David because David had God's support, so that made him more powerful than Saul. And because of this, Saul felt that he had to overcome David, that he had to be stronger and better than him. So this lead Saul to make wars and cause many deaths, and at the end, his own's. Jealousy leads people to doing terrible things due to their hate towards someone. And because they are so focused on their hate due to their envy, they are not aware of the consequences of their actions. Every person in the world suffers of this unfortunetly, and it is the cause of many problems. It will be great if we could all be happy and proud for each other, but unfortunetly due to our great envy, this is not possible.