Emotions in our world...

If I could eliminate one emotion from our world, which one would I eliminate? I have been pondering over this question for a few days already, and yet I still can’t make up my indecisive mind. However, only today then I knew which emotion to eliminate after we received our results…

I would remove jealousy. This is because jealousy can cause as much unhappiness as anger and also as much pain as torture. However, it would also be able to cause joyousness among those who are causing pain to others. It is both beneficial and a pain in our neck to us.

Let me give you an example: Students X and Y are rivals. Both of them want to outwit each other in terms of both academics and sports. On that fateful Friday, May 29, 2009, they both received their results. Normally, they would both ask each other what the score of his opponent was. They would say it at the same time and either of them would be jealous.

Jealousy can cause many side effects, such as killing himself/ herself, being more hardworking and study harder and much more. However, if you list down all the side effects, you will be able to see that there are more negative side effects than positive ones. By being jealous of someone, you will try to take revenge for whatever he has done to you. Anger will also rise in you and you will not be able to do anything to stop it. It is uncontrollable and you will feel like beating him up. This is an example of a negative side effect of jealousy.

Now, a positive side effect of jealousy is that when we are jealous, it will motivate us, make us strive harder to achieve better results.

These are the two reasons why I want to eliminate jealousy because it is a pain in our neck and also it will make Singapore constantly in a competitive environment.