Jealous for being the first soprano, for convincing me to try out for the school play and getting the part she wanted, and for dating a boy she secretly had a crush on. She wanted the things she thought had come so easily to me, the things she had worked so hard for and yet failed to achieve. His actions that day made me appreciate the people I love and the busy daily life I had because they helped me cope, but they were also the things that drove us apart. Many years later Anne apologized for the rumors she had started and the problems she had created, but the damage she had done altered how I viewed her as a person and how I viewed jealousy. That day I learned that you should never want the things that others have, their successes, nor should you try to tear someone down just to build yourself up. Jealousy won't give you what you want, it will tear you down and the people you are