The Green-Eyed Monster

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Jealousy:

The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζήλος (zēlos), sometimes “jealousy”, but more often in a positive sense “emulation, ardour, zeal” [9][10] (with a root connoting “to boil, ferment“; or “yeast”).

The color green is often associated with jealousy and envy, from which the expressions “green with envy”, and “green-eyed monster”[11] are derived.

The term Green-Eyed Monster, originally coined by Shakespeare, represents the envy that we feel.  The jealousy that consumes us.  The comparison that leads us to sin.  It’s a feeling that leads us to unhealthy habits.

Everyone struggles with envy.  Our culture is obsessed with comparison with the “Joneses.”  We are discontented people.

In our culture, of what are most people jealous?

29 thoughts on “The Green-Eyed Monster”

  5. And it's interesting you should post this today, because I had a bad case of the "green eyed monster" yesterday. And it made me feel very bad and not very chri

  24. That sounds like the father from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' He could take any word and show it's origin in Greek. He took kimono and linked to a Greek word that meant

  26. That sounds like the father from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' He could take any word and show it's origin in Greek. He took kimono and linked to a Greek word that meant robe.

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