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    Default Envy of enneagram type 4

    fours can envy anything. for instance, the other day I found myself envying my friend's dad who's already dead and buried in a really nice cemetery. I was thinking gosh, it's so peaceful here. wouldn't it be easier to just have it all behind me? I wish I could be that guy and have already lived a good life and be buried in this lovely spot.

    I'm the epitome of the grass is always greener and I'm sick of it.
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    <3 I totally feel for you here. I frequently and drastically oscillate between thinking that I am the consummation of all positive traits of humanity, and feeling like I have absolutely nothing compared to the rest of the world. The worst is when I'm at or near a college party; it's like seeing these people through a veil, these foreign celestial beings who have superpowers of socializing and self-acceptance, who cavort and fuck around and have a grand ole time, while I sit, behind the curtains, wishing I could be that carefree and escape my own self-absorption for long enough to feel that true Bacchanalian release.

    Then I turn around and think, "God, those swine, they are so pathetic; they don't even have an inking of the things I've been through, the polarities of life I've seen and felt and experienced in all their fullness...if only they knew, they'd cast down their beer cans and worship me like a resurrected martyr of human circumstance, simply for the chance to hear me speak about how they might best live their lives."

    ...Yeah, I have a Jesus complex
    But, for a certainty, back then,
    We loved so many, yet hated so much,
    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    <3 I totally feel for you here. I frequently and drastically oscillate between thinking that I am the consummation of all positive traits of humanity, and feeling like I have absolutely nothing compared to the rest of the world. The worst is when I'm at or near a college party; it's like seeing these people through a veil, these foreign celestial beings who have superpowers of socializing and self-acceptance, who cavort and fuck around and have a grand ole time, while I sit, behind the curtains, wishing I could be that carefree and escape my own self-absorption for long enough to feel that true Bacchanalian release.
    I can hardly imagine this! You seem so self-assured on the forum. and you're cute too... I imagine you'd have women surrounding you at all times.

    Then I turn around and think, "God, those swine, they are so pathetic; they don't even have an inking of the things I've been through, the polarities of life I've seen and felt and experienced in all their fullness...if only they knew, they'd cast down their beer cans and worship me like a resurrected martyr of human circumstance, simply for the chance to hear me speak about how they might best live their lives."
    IEI-Fe 4w3

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    Quote Originally Posted by redbaron View Post
    fours can envy anything. for instance, the other day I found myself envying my friend's dad who's already dead and buried in a really nice cemetery. I was thinking gosh, it's so peaceful here. wouldn't it be easier to just have it all behind me? I wish I could be that guy and have already lived a good life and be buried in this lovely spot.

    I'm the epitome of the grass is always greener and I'm sick of it.
    The grass is always greener above ground.
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    I'm not a 4 but I have issues with envy too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tuturututu View Post
    I'm not a 4 but I have issues with envy too.
    So is that why you're trying to copy me?
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    Yeah I don't really want to get into this. It's such a fucked up topic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rethias View Post
    Yeah I don't really want to get into this. It's such a fucked up topic.
    So you're posting in it...why?
    But, for a certainty, back then,
    We loved so many, yet hated so much,
    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    So you're posting in it...why?
    Because he is the one who's fucked up?
    “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

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    You've done yourself a huge favor developmentally by mustering the balls to do something really fucking scary... in about the most vulnerable situation possible.

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