Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. If there is sin more deadly than envy, it is being pleased at being envied. It's hard not to constantly compare our lives with others. Television characters live in decorator homes and lead lives far more glamorous than ours. Magazines offer details about the exciting lives of celebrities.
Insecurities can cloud relationships.
Rather than celebrating the beauty and goodness of others, we feel threatened. There is nothing unusual about an occasional twinge of jealousy. We let things go too much their own way. We try too much to get what we can by our own selfish wits, without considering our neighbor. We follow too much the ways and fashions of the day, doing and saying and thinking anything that comes uppermost, just because there is so much around us.