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Where Jealousy Got Me

Jealousy will only ever take you to bad places

Gabi Chindemi
May 30, 2017
West Chester University
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Where Jealousy Got Me
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Jealousy (noun): jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/jealousy

Dear Jealousy,

I hate you. I cannot explain how much I hate you. I physically cannot put it into words. It's taking me all of my strength not to just slam my hands on my keyboard right now... that's how frustrated I am with you.

Dear Jealousy,

You managed to break a perfectly fantastic friendship. You managed to make me angry at my best friend. I hate you for that. I hate you so much.

Dear Jealousy,

I made you a list of what you got me this year.

1. You broke a perfect friendship.

2. You made me hate myself.

3. You made me lose more friends because of my broken friendship.

4. You caused me to relapse with self-harm.

5. You made me self-conscious.

6. You made me question everything musical that I have ever done.

Dear Jealousy,

I knew that my life would be going downhill as soon as you became prevalent in my life. From the minute you entered my life, I knew that my relationships with friends would never be the same. You ruined so many of my closest friendships. You are the reason that I can't look at my best friend and think about all of our good times together. When I look at her now, the only thing that I can think of is how terrible I was to her when YOU took over me. I hate YOU, jealousy!

Dear Jealousy,

This is my senior year. This was supposed to be one of the best years of my life. Do you know how many times I heard people say "senior year is the best year ever! You're going to love it!"?!?!?!?!?! I heard that at least three times a day over the summer leading into my senior year. I was so excited for this year. I planned on spending more time with my friends for fear of not seeing them anymore. But no. Jealousy, you had other plans, didn't you? You wanted this to be one of the worst years of my life.

I cut off relationships because of you.

I hurt my best friends because of you.


Dear Whoever Is Letting Jealousy Takeover,

You can do this. You are strong. And please, believe me, you have a right to be jealous. I do not know what you're going through... but I can promise you this... if you let this jealousy take over your life, nothing will be the same. Take it from a girl who would know. Take it from the girl who lost her best friends because she let jealousy take over her life. Please do not let this happen to you.

If you're allowing jealousy to take over your life, you need to sit down with whoever you're jealous of... or whatever you're jealous of... and talk it out. Fix things before they can get any worse. Please.

Do this for you.

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