Are you compared with other people all the time? Is your performance at work scrutinized by the boss in light of someone else's? (and does that drive you crazy??!)
How about the comparison of siblings, yuck! So horrid! I had this nun way back when who use to size me up with one of my older brothers...she would call me up to her desk in the mid-afternoon and start out kind and even complimentary at times, then she woud roll right into: "Why can't you be more like your brother Raymond? He was this, he was that..."
"Well, sister, for one thing, he's a boy and I am a girl!" I never said it, but I sure wanted to!
Or, do you compare your visage with everyone else...or do you just compare yourself with Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Palin, George Clooney or George of the Jungle?
I guess it is human nature to compare ourselves with others...check out these examples: Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25), Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37-47) Peninnah and Hannah (1st Samuel 1). Remember the sons of Zebedee's mom piping up and asking that her sons would be able to be in a closer position to Jesus in the Kingdom? Jealousy has many faces, doesn't it?
Jealousy has ensnared me at certain junctures in my life too...and I hate it! I would rather concentrate on the watchful eye of the Master rather than on the green-eyed monster! His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches over me :-) even though I am a Robin :-)
Paul said (and this is my scripture verse of the week) in 1st Corinthians 13, from verse 4 : love does not envy.
If we see something amazingly wonderful in another person, an attribute, a talent, let's just enjoy it and may it inspire us to be better with what we have been given!