The Green-Eyed Monster

In this life you will come across some people who are so buried under their own misery, they will see you and want to knock you down a peg just because life is not going their way. For whatever reason, the pendulum has not swung in their direction, and they may feel as if you have some kind of unfair advantage. If you are the smartest person in the room, the funniest, the most confident, the prettiest whatever you have greater than, more of, or better than they do; they will hate you for it. A complete stranger could be hating on you from afar putting negative, bitter, hateful arrows aimed in your direction, and you do not even know it. I could see you wondering how this could be the case among people that do not even know you, but the truth is they do not have to know you personally to be bitter. People make assumptions based on their interpretation of the impression they believe you have demonstrated. Try as they might, because they will even try to label it something else to make themselves feel better, there is one word for it- jealousy.
It is a disease that many people of this particular generation are plagued by. All of that said, here is the key, know you better than anyone else could assume they do. Know your own heart in all of its kindness, care, sensitivity, generosity, and love. Welcome only the people that give off the kind of energy you would like to share. Only engage with people of purely positive, uplifting, and encouraging spirit, and those that share a like-minded purpose and drive as you do. Let the haters hate. Use their words as motivation to keep striving to be the best version of yourself. Pray that with all of their uninvited observation of you, they will learn something that will help them better themselves, and realize that their lens is out of focus and their attention should be turned on themselves. In the meantime, be the beautiful person you are and keep your eye on the ball. Know that no one can define you unless you let them.