Seething Jealousy..... on the rocks

Pour an ounce of mistrust on the cubes of despise, add insecurity and disgust, 1/2 an oz. each. Stir it with fear and dash a little anger. Serve it in the kitschy indifference. You will know your poison. You will know you are being had. It ain’t a cocktail that appeases your gustatory organs and inflames pulmonary walls; it’s a venom that incineratesthe trust and blisters the contentment in relationship.

Jealousy is a very natural but imperishable emotion that is brewed in the vacuum created by perceptual absence of love. Once had, it consumes the grounds its spawned on. To most of us the hangover lasts long and the unfortunate few who are gullible, get addicted and spent. Total absence of it is hypothetical. It's the devil's very own, special cocktail.

It’s made perennial appearance in the children's stories, literature, theology and spirituality.

"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not" - said Shakespeare in Othello. The bible defines Jealousy; cruel as the grave and the coals thereof as coals of fire.  

One would argue that isn't it just like any other natural feeling of anger and irritation? Shouldn't the absence of it in most obvious circumstances be eccentric than the presence. When anything acidic added to soda produces the fizz any apparent insecurity fizzes out the jealousy when poured on love. So here is the catch - a chemical reaction is bound by the laws of nature however human reactions are not.

Us Adam's sons, often confuse the common phenomenon with the normal phenomenon. The juxtaposition of jealousy and insecurity in love make it sound very mushy and reasonable, but it's actually not normal to be so fond of this green eyed pet. A prolonged state of it has repercussions; ranging from temporary physical hazards to irreversible psychological maladies.

Jealousy which is always under-rated is no underdog. It spans from, among the fellow students in a classroom to professional covetousness in the boardroom, jealousy in relationships, romantic jealousy among lovers to the divine jealousy among Gods. In fact Greek mythology is rife with Hera's jealous vengeance for Zeus’s philanderic escapades. No wonder the word has its roots in greek word "zelos".