Jealousy is a powerful emotion. So powerful in fact, that it can prevent many of us from truly living well. I define jealousy in two parts. The first part of jealousy is the thought that someone else has something that I want. The second part of jealousy is the desire for what someone else has can create sadness and envy inside our hearts, and as a result, we suffer. Let’s look at a couple of examples. Someone may pull up next to us while we’re driving and we may think that their car is a lot nicer than mine. Or we may walk into a store and see someone who is better looking than us and feel envious that we aren’t as beautiful as they are. It’s common to feel these feelings of jealousy as we go about our days, but I’ve observed that the biggest feeder of jealousy is social media. This is because we can log in whenever we please and see that other people are achieving more success, purchasing nicer things, receiving more recognition, and the list goes on and on. The constant access t