Being at peace

Contentment, understanding and acceptance. Easier said than done. Sometimes you encounter someone doing something better than you do. Then, naturally, that person would become a guide of sorts. Maybe emulating that person would be desirable somehow. One of the worst things that could happen is that envy turns into a sort of jealousy, and then to resentment. I mean like , aspiring towards a goal is good, but mere resentment and ending up living by hatred and not improving oneself is a really unacceptable situation. It's a bit like going "What's she doing right that I'm not", "Why does she have everything and I don't" and so on. The resentment exists, but the will to improve is weak to nonexistent. Strangely enough, it happens all the time without people realizing it. Not everyone would step back from their lives and rethink what they had been doing like forever, just because it had become routine and they'd assumed that something that had gone on for so long wouldn't be going too wrong. Reminds me of how some people stay in power longer than they should.