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| I have noticed I mispelled jealous(y) more than once in my previous reply. Sorry. |
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| #18 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:52 am Do you ever feel jealous? |
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I feel jealous very often. A little bit like Jamie when I see a person get previleges others really deserve, I feel angry and jealous. I will say to myself:"This guy is a good-for-nothing without licking boss's boots and why that guy is so lucky that he could study abroad with the money their parents grafted." OMG, I really feel angry.
Sometimes when I watch a photo of a happy couples i feel jealous and wonder why they are so lucky?
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| #19 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:54 am Do you ever feel jealous? |
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envious and jealous? what is the differences? Druitaly.....
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| #20 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:49 am Do you ever feel jealous? |
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| aleaf wrote: |
| I will say to myself:"This guy is a good-for-nothing without licking boss's boots and why that guy is so lucky that he could study abroad with the money their parents grafted." OMG, I really feel angry. |
In Eastern Europe I used to get angry about Americans who had an opportunity to study abroad and then wasted it, turning it into a big party on their parents' money and arriving home with no knowledge of the language they were supposed to be learning in their host country.
Meanwhile, I'd see Czech families in which the parents would work two or three different jobs, slaving away to assemble enough cash to send their teenager to the US or Canada to learn English. Their kids took the opportunity to study abroad VERY SERIOUSLY, and they all spoke good English when they came home.
Sometimes I wished there was a way to rob the travel money from the foolish American's parents and give it to the struggling Czech parents for their child.
You may say this makes me sound like a communist, and yes, communism is based on jealousy and the desire to rob people. However, if my idea were really communism, I'd rob the money from the American parents and then make it disappear somehow so that nobody gets anything. |
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| #21 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:01 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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Jamie(K)
please don't change the topic. it has nothing to do with the COMMUNISM china. And when you talk about China, don't use such word as"rob" because it makes the chinese very angry. 
Jamie(K) I begin to think you are a chinese now.
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| #22 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:19 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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I wasn't talking about communism in China, Aleaf. I was talking about the communist impulse in general, which exists in many places, and even among people in some prosperous capitalist societies. I can hear it in my town among auto factory workers who make $100,000 a year and still complain about being exploited by the "rich". And sometimes I see it in myself.
Anyway, if you see me changing the subject, you can just ignore it. That keeps the peace.  |
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| #23 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:23 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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Why should I ignore it? I like to point out the things I disagree.  especially comments on china.
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| #24 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:37 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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| aleaf wrote: |
| Why should I ignore it? I like to point out the things I disagree. especially comments on china. |
Okay, but as I said, I wasn't commenting on China. |
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| #25 (permalink) Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:51 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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Ok I am very glad China isn't among the countries you mentioned above. hihihihi
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| #26 (permalink) Fri Aug 31, 2007 15:34 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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It strikes me that i feel envy when i see a beautiful woman and a handsome man.
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| #27 (permalink) Fri Aug 31, 2007 17:05 pm Do you ever feel jealous? |
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| I am sometimes jealous of my friends' success and luck. However, to me, jealousy is just an offhand feeling; it's kind of human characteristics . If we are obsessed with it most of the time, it may put us back. |
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