Jealousy and Time

I realize there's a very temporal aspect to professional jealousy.

In rivalry with peers, we want to do it before the other.

The hardest moments to go through are when those we admire or envy reach a summit before us. We feel left behind—even if it's not exactly the summit we were aiming for.

So we want to enter the race, to hurry to do it now.

Sometimes losing sight of what we really want to do.

Because, at the end of a career or a life, does it really matter when we did things? Doesn't fulfillment come rather from having done exactly what we wanted to do, regardless of timing?

So it's easy to lose sight of what matters.