Assigment #7 Self-Value

I think that this quote is very much true. The reason for this is because how can you expect for other people to love you if you can not even love yourself. Jealousy is all in your head. You just make yourself believe that other people will be loved more than you because you have not fully excepted the love within yourself. Many people say jealousy is a disease. I have never really believed that myself because to me, jealousy is loves mean older cousin.You can make it go away if you wanted it to.

You always wonder why you can never seem to make a relationship work. The jealousy is why. The person you may have thought didn't love you enough or love you at all probably did. You just probably thought it was a mistake and that it wasn't somehow right for that person to love you because you have never really loved yourself in a way that other people should. That is what this person is saying in this quote.

Another point the author of this has made is that "Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value." I seem to agree with this because if you are scared of jealousy then it is all a fear. The fear that you don't have value as stated above. Have you ever heard the saying "Treat others the way you want to be treated"? Well now think of that saying the other way around. "Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you". That makes sense right? You cannot expect others to feel something for you that you can't seem to feel for yourself.

Jealousy is a killer I'll tell you that. Everyone has a bit of jealousy inside of them. Whether we like to admit it or not. But you should never let that take you over. I think sometimes you need to just focus on finding yourself and learning to trust your own being. Envy is one of the 7 deadly sins and jealousy falls right under that category which makes it even less right. Thinking that others are better than you and they will always have something you want isn't right because it isn't always true. If that is all you think then you will never fully except yourself for who you are.

Jealous people will never get anywhere in life, they will find themselves just having the same problem over and over again. You need to learn to love yourself before you can expect someone else to love you. You have to stop looking for things to be jealous of in other people and except yourself within. Jennifer James made a good point in this quotation and I'm sure anyone who reads and reflects on it will realize who they are and do something about it.