As human being, emotions are built-in qualities…..That’s why envy is inevitable and mind controlling.- Mrs. fleuren (www.emozonefleuren.blogspot.com)

        On my own view, envy can sometimes be considered as sin and other time’s not. As what as it said that this reflects the human tendency to hide the dark sides of ourselves more specifically those that make us feel inferior. As what I as Mrs. Fleuren said on her blog, envy is part of our system since this emotion is hard to identify and to integrate. That’s why most of people often confused to identify between envy and jealousy. Both are hard to identify and hard to cast out when we are inflicted. However, jealousy is mainly focused of the fear of losing what we have and envy is the pain of seeing what others have. 

Envy can be considered as a sin when the envious person has a motive of destroying the envied party. Probably this will happen when someone is fond of comparing his/herself to others to the degree of conditioning his/herself to do something not good to the person he/she is envied of. Basically, to be human, is to have pockets of emptiness that endlessly long for fulfillment. Envy enters our hearts when we hopeless condition of receiving the good things we desire. The emptiness and longing that one felt are replaced by resentment and rages causing him/her to want others to pay for making them feel so bad.

Another thing is, envy can also inflict not only to an individual but also to a group. Through contamination with a group’s resentful feeling and undermining other’s efforts to live and work cooperatively, envious individuals in a community have a negative influence on the whole group. They can begin some discordance by secretly spreading rumors that foster mistrust, suspicion, pitting people against each other and creating triangles.

Group inflicted with envy manifest a sign of scapegoating. Some people creates gossip, opposes or withholding of agreement and support are most of the examples. It also affected younger generations by negatively treated by the older ones. It is painful for the older people to accept the reality of aging. This would cause resentment that drives a kind of envy between old and young, inhibiting them from enjoying the good things that they give to each other. Even in families, there are some parents who are facing in dealing with envious feelings toward their own children when they see those enjoying advantages that they themselves did not experience when they were young.