Assignment #7

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. (Jennifer James)

This quote is practically saying that jealousy controls you. There is only one other thing that you have-self value. If you do not show yourself that you are loved and tell yourself you are loved, then you will not feel loved. You will always think that the good or bad things you do are mistakes and the good things you do are luck. What you need to do is stop paying attention to other people, and look what you have inside of yourself. You also have to find where the jealousy is coming from and find all of it and clear all of it from your body. Put all of your energy into focusing on yourself rather than others. Then, you will make others jealous and you can remember all the jealousy you had for them and reach out for them and try and help them.
I just re-wrote the poems in the words that i understood it in and i think that this quote is a very powerful one. The author is trying to tell everybody that you need to stop being jealous of others and clear out all the jealousy from your body. There are many jealous people in the world. No matter how old, young, skinny, tall, fat, short, tall etc. Everyone is jealous of something. James also says that you must love yourself or you will not feel loved. She is meaning that if you are always negative all the time about yourself saying stuff like "Oh I'm fat I hate my body", then other people will not love you, so you have to have confidence in yourself and believe that everyone loves you. James is saying that people need to quit looking at other people and being jealous of what they have and focus on yourself and what you have. This is a very good quote because James is talking about stuff that happens daily and people need to open their eyes and realize that life is too short to be jealous of what other people have. Everyone shall be grateful for whatever they have.