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5 ways to handle jealousy
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Your best friend makes more money. Your sister has the faster metabolism. And everyone takes better vacations (at least according to Instagram). Don’t sit and seethe. Turn envy into opportunity with one of these tactics.
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Be a copycat. I have a friend who’s going to travel in South America for a year. When she told me, I immediately thought, I’m so jealous. How do I get to go on a trip like that? Use that feeling,
Written by Rebecca Webber Illustration by Shout
AUGUST 2015
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and follow your friend’s example. It doesn’t have to be the whole shebang. Maybe you walk into someone’s house and you’re jealous of her great kitchen. So you can’t do a whole renovation, but you can certainly update or change something that will make you happy. I can’t travel abroad for a year. But I can take a similar, smaller step. After my friend’s announcement, my husband and I decided to go to Mexico. We had been talking about it, and my friend’s news pushed us to say, “Screw it—let’s just go.”
