yogi: You addressed a side point to my valid points. You may not believe it, therefore the basis for this thread may be faulty.
B”H you have a wonderful mother. We don’t have to degrade others to feel good about ourselves. I find that the way I avoid being jealous of others is threefold.
1. I try not to think about others, needlessly.
2. I try to genually be happy for other people and what they have (only when I’m forced to think about what they have)
3. Most important and hardest, try to see the tremendeous blessings in what have and we have to be thankful for.