Jealousy when someone says they’re doing good

[abchia]

Does anyone else feel jealous and bad about themselves when you ask someone how they're doing and they respond with something like "good"?

 

[Whitegirlwasted]

Totally. Especially when I don't like the person much. It makes me SO jealous how people I hate are still doing better than me.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Nope, I usually either feel happy for them or indifferent. It's important to also note that someone saying that they are doing fine or good doesn't mean that they are actually doing fine or good. People usually like about how it's going for them because they don't want to worry others or make them uncomfortable. Along with that, even if they are being honest they might only be referencing how they are feeling in that exact moment, not what's going on with them long-term.

 

[Mirrory Me]

It depends on "how well", but everyone has something to be happy about.

 

[Bobsled96]

Yeah. I don't really feel bad about it either, my life has been so horrible it's hard to care about being a good person if I'm being frank. I don't even want to be one, after how life and so many others have treated me I would feel like a sucker. I don't owe the world squat. I don't think I've felt real guilt in years and that doesn't bother me at all.

 

[divinemistress36]

Yes especially when they are shitty people

 

[SoulCage]

Yes and I believe I know why my brain reacts that way. I know what "good" feels like, but I also know what it takes to achieve good things. When someone tells me their good stuff I realize that I want it too, but it won't be possible without some degree of hardship and suffering. They remind me of everything that I am lacking, that I want to be, that I need to be.
It is intensified once I learn that they had help (financial or emotional support). It makes me feel like nobody cares whether I am happy or not and then why do I even exist? I am helping other people, but they never help me? I have to work and endure while they get to enjoy?

I wish I was indifferent like others that commented before me. I wish I could just disassociate from the world and myself.

 

[TiredTurtle]

most people just reply that they are doing "good" because it's the expected response and not socially acceptable to reply any other way, it's nothing more than scripted small talk.

People don't want to bother strangers and casual acquaintances with their problems and vulnerability's.

 

[Nikitatos]

I'm jealous when someone dies.

 

[divinemistress36]

I'm jealous when someone dies.

Same. Everyone will say how sad it is and all I can think is how lucky they are to be out of suffering

 

[feelinggloomy]

I envy when people are able to pass and end the pain and I get irritated when I see happy people who complain about nonsense

 

[UmbraDweller]

I mean, isn't this just the basic npc response people give to that question. Even if they aren't doing well. Most of people lie when they say it. It's just a generic response you are expected to say when asked, to proceed to a scripted small talk. Nobody really asks that because they care, but out of politeness.

 

[cosmic-freedom]

When I see people from my country who have moved abroad away from the toxic people surrounding them and living a rich lifestyle+a life of absolute freedom,I get insanely jealous.Social media only shows us how easy some of them have while the rest have to struggle to get by for a single day,wishing we were dead.

 

[AAE]

I feel jealous and angry with those who have peace, quiet, clean air and take it for granted while I suffer torture on a level above what their minds can fathom. And I feel hate against humanity because peace, silence and clean air is considered too much to ask for. Your absolute needs for living are denied just to save money for the richest.