The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side

All of us, at one time or another, have felt that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence- in other words, that someone else's life is better than our own. We believe that having what someone else has will make us happy- until we experience the unexpected negative results of envy. Have you ever seen or felt its negative effects?

I have envied people before many times. Seeing people with material goods that I have always wanted. Could be books, games, food, magazines, computer games, computer parts, basically almost anything. For example, I envied that my friend had a Xbox 360 because it was one of the most popular gaming consoles and I did not have one however. Though, I have never had the unexpected negative results of envy nor felt them before. I have envied about many things before but none of the results have happened. Though I wanted the items, I usually forget about it. Like some things that I envy were once very popular at that time, few months later, it might be considered boring and I would easily lose interest. So my envys come and go, envying one thing, then forgeting about it few months later. It is typical me and I would never go crazy or do something drastic to get something that I wanted.