Isn’t it interesting how boys get jealous of those without manners or good personal hygiene? He’s disgusting: how I envy him!
There is such as thing as “boy funk.” Some kids, like adults, must make an extra effort at good hygiene. When I was growing up, the number one role model for kids going through this issue was Pig Pen from the Peanuts comic strip. Yes, that’s most likely where I got the inspiration to draw this cartoon.
One day in kids’ church, I taught a lesson on jealousy and envy. I used this green with envy cartoon to get the kids thinking about the subject.
The term, “green with envy,” could have gone back as far as the time of the Ancient Greeks. They associated a green complexion with sickness, fear, and jealousy. Later, William Shakespeare alluded to the term in Othello.
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy;
Iago in Othello
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
Our lesson was on envy versus contentment and how we get distracted from loving others and God when we are envious.
I was thinking a little more about green and thought about the cliché, “green with envy.”
It’s funny how when you are envious or jealous, you are at your least attractive. If someone is jealous of another’s affection, the jealousy repels the other person instead of attracting them. Isn’t life just full of paradoxes?
When I was still dating, it wasn’t until I gave up trying to find that special someone was when my wife and I met. Like my momma said, “Stop trying so hard!”