Why are people jealous of successful people?

Robert Kiyosaki, in his book Rich Dad Poor Dad, stated one thing which I find very interesting. He said, we are living in a free society. The good thing about living in a free society is that we can choose, whether we want to be rich, middle-class or poor. So, it's actually a choice, which one of those classes you want to be in. Of course, success can be in any form. Success basically means being able to achieve what it is that you desired and worked so hard for. But I will be focusing my response on success in business, or success in becoming rich, as this is the topic that I'm familiar with the most. Of course, the same principles required to become rich or become successful in business, can also be applied to become successful in other areas also. Back to what Kiyosaki said, it is actually a choice. Poor people became poor because that's what they chose. The actions they took and the decisions they made in the past is what brought them to where they are today. Their choices in the past is what made them poor today. Same goes to the middle-class, and same goes to the rich. Being successful is about grabbing opportunity. Successful people become successful because they chose to grab the opportunities in life that were offered to them. The reason why I'm so confident about this statement is because I'm involved in network marketing business. I meet middle-class and poor people everyday to present my network marketing opportunity. I've seen people grab the opportunity and become successful. I've also seen people reject the opportunity, not become successful, and continues to brag about how lucky the successful people are, and how unlucky it is that they are not. No. They were lucky. Everyone always gets lucky throughout their lives. The difference is that, successful people use their luck, and really capitalize on it. They had gratitude for the opportunities that were open to them, and they grabbed it. The concept of gratitude was mentioned in every religion. It was mentioned in the Bible, it was mentioned in the Qur'an, it was taught in Buddhism and Hinduism also. And gratitude is very powerful. It's gratitude that makes people have the desire to really capitalize on the opportunities they have had, the blessings that they have had, and not just complain about things they don't have. That's how successful people become who they are. So, unsuccessful people must not be jealous of successful people. Instead, they should learn from them, befriend some if possible and follow their steps to success, so that they too, can become successful. Being jealous of successful people will only make them more unsuccessful.

That is true in our daily life. It seems that people devote all the attention to the success and glorious achievement. Maybe they are lazy people. They just admire the bright aspects and don't want to make any effort. Maybe they feel that it is not fair for the rich to be richer and richer in the society. The society doesn't offer them the equal chance to accumulate wealth. They think that their abilities are not lower than the rich. They are wonder why the wealth come to the rich only. IN my opinion, being jealous is not a totally bad thing. It can arouse people's competing spirit. and encourage themselves to make great effort in order to be a successful one in the life. We should know the limit of jealousy and make use of it instead of surrender to it. If one become the instrument of jealousy, How shameful he would be!

that's true! Usually, people tend to forget or overlook the efforts and hardships that person went through just to be successful. Also some people get jealous at times because for others success comes easy. Personally, I don't really get jealous... It's more that I see them as an inspiration to work harder :) I really hope that all of us will be successful in our own chosen paths.