Post #3368450
2026-06-21 23:47 UTC
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.
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@kindnesskills@literature.cafe 2026-06-21 23:59
People are capable of incredibly complex emotions, such as feeling both unhappy bitterness of their own lives in comparison, while feeling and displaying joyous celebrations of their friends success. One can have both positive and negative experiences of the same event. There’s no use in trying to narrow down to either one.