Thursday, March 26, 2009

Jealousy

People who can run fast
People who are rich
Redheads
People who can calculate fast in their heads
Musicians
People who love their jobs
Cats (eating, sleeping, fucking, getting praise for being selfish lazy little attention whores because they're cute - pretty much the ideal life)
People with a talent
People with quiet neighbours
People who are sporty
Slim people
Good looking people
Contented people

You?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

People who are rich
People who love their jobs
People with a talent
People who are sporty
Good looking people
Contented people
+
Sane people
Non-alcoholics
Young, working-class, heterosexual women in Berlin
Clever people
People with interests
People whose respiratory system works normally

But life is good, life is good, life is good (x infinity (or until you've convinced yourself it's true))

Bowleserised said...

People who can read the minds of horses.
People who aren't inappropriately afraid.
People who leap in and do things.
People who have what it takes to learn German vocabulary.

Anonymous said...

people with wealth that are still nice and down to earth
rock stars - cause they're just cool innit
people like Bib that get to live in Berlin
people like Emma that get to live in Barcelona
people that own their own place
people with pug dogs

Anonymous said...

People who are rich
People who live in London
People who are naturally thin
People who can learn languages
People who write novels
People who don't get jealous
People who have energy
People who have ambition
People who have good haircuts
People who have good memories
People who don't drink too much
People who have hobbies
People who sing in public
People who play an instrument
etc etc etc

Wyndham said...

People.

Anonymous said...

I can run like the wind!

I'm terribly jealous of people with the patience to practice e.g. musical instruments.

GreatSheElephant said...

people who are sporty
people who have lots of friends
people who don't have depression
people with perfect eyesight
people without RSI
opera singers
people with perfect sinuses
people who like children
people with hinges
people with a reliable and adequate income

Andrew said...

People who are fluent in two or more languages.
People with any sort of a work ethic.
People who've always known what they wanted to be when they grew up.
People who don't have a bad back.
People whose instinct is never to bitch and moan.
People who manage to be successful without getting ideas above their station.

Istvanski said...

Meh. The secret to not being jealous is to mind your own business.

Oh, and limiting your own personal aspirations also works well, I have found.

Betty said...

People who are interesting company.
People who able to talk to other people.
People who are intelligent.
People who think there is a point to anything.

Bowleserised said...

Hey look, teachers *can* get good press! If they're Spiderman.

Inwardly Confused said...

The naturally thin.
People who don't let the small stuff get to them.
Funny people.
People who don't have to worry about being skint, or that their parents are nearing retirement and are skint, or people who may have passed on bad financial habits onto their children and worry that their children will be skint

Annie said...

I know you're right, dear BiB. Must repeat mantra. But it's good to vent sometimes.

B - number 3, oh me too. I bet you do leap more than you think though.

Sar, let my flat be a warning to you. One day you'll have a pug, hon.

Em, oh you DO SO sing in public. You're a karaoke goddess.

Wyndham - what, everyone? I'm jealous of your capacity to be jealous.

Emordino - I'm jealous of you!

GSE, I'm intrigued by the hinges.

Andrew, I'd agree with all of those. Are you my long-lost twin?

Istvanski, you're so RIGHT. I've recently been thinking the key to happiness is merely to LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS. Simple, but it's taken me a while to come around to it.

Betty hon, you are all those things. Except for the last maybe, but it's hip to be nihilistic, you know.

B, I would have left them there... seriously, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??

You are funny, Inwardly Confused, no need for jealousy. Money's the devil, isn't it?

GreatSheElephant said...

hinges - toe joints that bend. I want to wear lovely high heeled shoes but I can't

Del said...

Slim people
Good looking people


But surely that would mean hating yourself, and that would never do.

Meh. I know people who are almost all of the things you listed, and they're still miserable. My only real jealousy is for people younger than me, simply because they have more life ahead of them and I don't want to die.

Annie said...

GSE - oh yes, people who can wear heels, I forgot them.

Awww, Del...

Funnily enough, I've stopped envying younger people. Knife crime, cyber-bullying, SATS, anorexia, obesity, lack of freedom, moral witchhunts... poor little sods. Who'd be a kid these days?