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To feel envy is to have a gnawing, aching pain eating away at our insides. It leaves us no peace and takes away all pleasure in the things we might otherwise have enjoyed.
Advertisers use envy to lure us into desiring something that we don’t yet have. It’s crazy if you think about it what envy will make us do.
A key reason for buying a 60-inch, 3D capable, ultra thin LED TV is that it will become an object of envy for your friends. Really there’s no way to justify a TV that big especially for some of the small family rooms I’ve seen them in. When a TV takes up the entire wall space of the wall its on it looks terrible.
TV aside all envy is a selfish emotion that no one desires, but the ability to inspire it in others definitely is.
How do you curb the envy emotion when it stirs inside of you?
Out of all the sins we will be covering over the next several weeks,
envy is different. It is different because it is the one sin, out of
the 7 deadly sins that has no pleasure in it whatsoever. From the first
hint of envy to the last part of it, envy is no fun at all. It is the
most dismal of habits. For the most part, just about all the other sins
can be enjoyed at least for a while. The most prudent of persons has to
admit the pleasure of lust or the adrenaline rush one gets when you lash
out in anger at someone. Even gluttony, taste good for a while. But
no-one chooses to spend their time secretly delighting in covetousness.
Henry Fairlie said this about envy; “It’s appetite never ceases, yet
it’s only satisfaction is endless self-torment.”
Envy is like a leach, once it latches on it is extremely hard to lose.
Envy is self-harming and self-abusing. We beat ourselves up over
objects that we don’t have. Even the sound of the word envy sounds evil
and depressing. Yet many devote hours, weeks, and even years of their
lives to it. It is a sin to which people rarely admit, but many
struggle with on a daily basis.
