Have you noticed as you get older you don't envy people anymore?

I never really thought about it before, but you are right. I find I am glad for what I have and my priorities have changed a great deal. I used to measure my success by what I made and had. Today I measure it by how I spend my days. I think that is part of growing up, realizing what is really important.

when i think about it acutally yeah its just for children and you still yet have adults who are jeaulous of others who dont have this or that ,..for example me when i was in elementry school and i sometimes saw the older kids in middle school or high school i would see them as " adults" not knowing that they were teens , so i would always look at them as the cool kids like ohh i want to be like them , and then i got older and looked how stupid they looked like skipping classes and just doing ignorant stuff , now half of them have unwanted children, been in jail or work a crappy job ..so yeah

I noticed that too but at my age I still feel envy from time to time but I do not experience or feel it like when I was much younger. I think it has something to do with your experiences in the past that you realize that some of those that you envy are really not worth it to be envied at all. Your perspective in life is more widened and you can simply understand how things work than before.

Yes as i have grown older n growin older each day..i dont seem to envy anybody much wit some exceptions of course like in a relationship i sometimes tend to get jelous fro certain obvious reasons of my own.Else i i wud agree wid you that with maturity all the envies n wants reduces

Yeah.I feel lil jealous when my daughter shes at her dad.Im jealous I think bcoz i miss her.

So true! As we grow older, we are more mature in our thinking and more confident of ourselves. We tend to be able to think beyond the superficial looks of it.

No I hadn't noticed. But you may be right. It comes with maturity I guess. The last time I remember feeling a twinge of the green eyed monster would be a bit over 8 years ago. My hubby was best man at a friends wedding. And had to dance with one of the bridesmaids. I think I felt jealous then.

After having my two girls I couldn't believe it was really happening but now Im so grateful that I have mellowed out and that I do not use other people to guage my own self value, looks especially because after you have children that sort of things doesnt have such serious importance, so much energy went into that before I had kids. Dont get me wrong, I still go to the gym and try to do some type of exercise each day because I have a boyfriend and guys appreciate it but I feel more comfortable with myself than I ever did before having kids.

I think as you get older you're better at noticing the "good" things you have and enjoying them rather than feeling jealous of someone for the things they have that you don't. You've learnt the value of hard work. I honestly don't remember the last time I was jealous.

This may be because as we get older we have more self confidence. Self esteem. Or at least in most cases. I know people older than me that still have a problem in this aera.

I guess we do envy people less as we grow older. But I am a jealous person, I am jealous most of the time. Especially with the guys who get along with my girlfriend. So it's really not the envy we experience as a child but jealousy we experience as grown ups. They say when you are always jealous, you are either not trusting your partner or not trusting yourself. I think I don't trust myself much. I have a low esteem, so that may be it.

yer i use to be jelious of older people when i was young, because i thought theyed do more. now im older i envy young people for there inasence...life changes us all