My Green Eyed Girl

Me and my jealousy: reunited again

Photo by Egor Vikhrev on Unsplash

For most of my life, jealousy was one of my constant companions. From an early age, I was jealous of all the girls¹ who seemed to have a better life than me. Given that I was shy, awkward, poor, lacking in friends, and dealing with a home life that was actively miserable, that meant I spent a lot of time being jealous of …