Post #3368120
2026-06-21 21:59 UTC
That’s inaccurate. I’m jealous of a lot of my friends. I tell them I’m jealous. I’m also happy for them and help them out, especially if it helps them get to the point where I’m jealous of them.
You can have more than one emotion and opinion about things.
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@TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 23:47
Would you say that rather than jealousy, you feel sympathetic joy? Because as defined by Cambridge dictionary, jealous is “an adjective used to describe someone who is feeling or showing an unhappy, resentful, or bitter emotion”. I feel that people don’t seem to think jealousy is a negative emotion even though that’s what it’s defined as.