Jealousy is a pair of glasses that makes every blessing in your hands look smaller.

Envy does not remove anything from your life. It changes the scale you view it on, so your own good things stay where they are and look smaller beside an edited version of someone else’s life. That is why the feeling is so convincing and so inaccurate at once. You are setting your whole day against their best minute.

When it arrives, name the specific thing you want rather than letting it stay a general ache. Often it is something you can work toward, or something you do not want. Then look down at your own hands for a moment, since the glasses come off faster that way.