
“I can’t get what they got bitterly”
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It’s too much human to feel jealous of others, but what can we do when these feelings threaten us? A reader describes a serious resentment in the promotion of the friend this month: “I can’t feel the bitter feeling about it.”
The obvious solution to envy would be avoided comparing people around us, but it is easier than that. Humans are social creatures evolved in hierarchies, and those within a group …