Worse for The Better

From time to time we realize jealousy kills, does not matter whether it is the strongest friendship ever or the few days old partnership. It was the old man’s advice which hit me hard on the head, recalling the time where similar incidents taken place, where most of us apply the same concept even when we were in high school back then. Always, we get envious when someone else possesses what we wanted most, which may then develop into jealousy and hatred. Always, we would look forward to the worse than the better, in the sense of us hoping the others not able to achieve what we are capable of, but never the time where we wish to work harder and surpass them instead. How often do we tell ourselves to be better when there is a competition and not wish the rivals would fall, thus not able to compete anymore? How often do we not want to be better than everyone else, where the others would look up to us and seek for our opinion whenever there is a problem occurred? And how often do we answer the questions above without thinking it twice or more? Generally, we want to surpass many others, but the question is, do we choose to be better by having the others falling, or upgrading ourselves to a higher level?