One of the seven deadly sins..

Envy! .

Envy has been historically considered as one of the seven deadly sins. Can we think that this feeling have been presented in everybody mind in at least in one occasion? I think that "envy" is a bad but natural feeling that people have suffered in some moment of their life. Everybody says that women used to feel more envy than man. Nevertheless, I believe that this behaviour is something common and recurrent in women and men. We used to feel envy when we realize that somebody has something that we want but we can not achieve. Sometimes this feeling of envy is something temporary, but the problem begins when people is not able to control their envy and it becomes in an obsession that generates hatred in our mind.
We should think that everybody life has positive and negative aspects, so we should not envy other person's life. Since, we are damaging our own mental stability and the only victim of this terrible feeling is going to be yourself. Therefore, we can say that envy is a really dangerous attitude that causes negative consequences for everybody.However, I think that this is an inevitable feeling, since sometimes we are weak and we used to think that our life is not as good as another person life.Taking this idea into account, I think that despite the fact that envy is not good at all, it is going to be present in society throughout centuries.
The next link is an interesting website about envy over a religious perspective; we can find on it why envy is considered a sin, the christian history of this "sin" among other curious information about it!
http://www.christians.org/misery/misery04.html