Jealousy in Our World

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Jealousy in our world How do you define a good friend? Something everyone wonders. It’s the world we live in am I loved or am I not? Everyone will have a different meaning on what they think a friend can be. “A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” Lois Wyse. That could be one way to view it. That person who always is there for you no matter what, that’s a friend. On the other end of the spectrum you can have friends who deep down inside aren’t seen as how you may think. In a separate peace two boys are best friends and then very quickly one starts to see the other differently due to jealousy. Friends come and go in your life but they never leave you as a person somewhere somehow every friend plays an important role in our life. If that’s a good or a bad role sometimes we will never know. “Live for the nights that we won’t remember and the people that we won’t forget.” Aubrey Drake Graham. Although jealousy has its positive and negative effects on people you see in between friends, lovers, and family. Just about everyone, it’s the kind of jealousy that varies. What fuels a friendship? Sometimes love sometimes jealousy. What is jealousy thou? “It's a mixture of emotions that can include anger, fear, grief and feelings of betrayal. We learn jealousy during infancy and childhood. It stems from a basic survival instinct.” Unknown. Jealousy you see all the time in modern America without even noticing it. Some people will join other crowds or “groups” not because they like those people. But because they are jealous and want to get in close to get back at them. Or how someone can be best friends but the one may get all the attention and you become the person that just hangs out with the popular kid. So you began to want to bring that person down to your level. Using girls for
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