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Do you ever want people to be jealous of you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I love the thought of people thinking of me obsessively and wanting to be just like me.

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Great speech, really, but why aren't you getting it? It's not about you or me or the commenter i started the chain with. This was their comment:

… do people actually do that? As in, is strong jealousy really a thing?

I’d like to believe that each of us builds their life into the exact thing they need, so swapping places with anyone else would be terribly uncomfortable. So I can’t relate as to why anyone would ever be jealous i guess haha

Are you and all the people up voting that comment really unable to grasp that there are people who actually do that? That strong jealousy really is a thing?

You kept deviating with your own sad stories, hope and self-control and get out from the bad environment.

But this is about them, the people that get left behind, that don't crawl out and escape, that don't get to build their lives into the exact thing they need. So that swapping places with literally anyone else would be fucking awesome to them.

That's why I said you're sitting on a high horse, you can't seem to relate to them.

God job on making it out though. Though they might have moments of jealousy, I'm sure most of the people that couldn't do the same are proud and thankful you can be an example to them. (Not sarcasm, if you're interpreting that way. You only saw those earlier examples and seemed deadset on them being the only kind there is.)