[GOP Poet]

I am so-o happy you posted this. I literally just read this on another site and wondered what fellow Freepers would say. Thank you for posting this.

It really gave me a lot to chew on and to reflect on in both myself and in those around me. Envy is so pervasive.

One thing that struck me is how older folks can envy young children and even then they take them down and the child thinks it is their problem and extinquish this quality that threatens others, when usually it is a God given strength/trait. I think this happens a lot even in well meaning people and in Christian families.

[Salvation]

**Envy is so pervasive.**

Yes, the secular world would have us think that "envy" and wanting to beat down those around us who might have more (of anything:
stuff, money, brains, degrees, awards, body of the slim type, etc. LOL!) is OK.

Did I catch everything there?

NTW, thanks for your kind words.

[cornelis]

older folks can envy young children

Is there a difference between envy and jealousy?