Clapping for someone else’s miracle is practice for receiving your own.

Celebrating someone else’s good news is harder when you have been waiting for the same thing, and the difficulty is normal rather than shameful. Envy quietly teaches you to receive good news as a loss, which means it eventually spoils your own, since you will have spent years practicing scarcity. Being genuinely glad is a skill that gets built through repetition.

When the next announcement comes, say something specific and warm within the hour, before the comparison starts. Do it even when you have to decide to. Then be honest with God about what it cost.