J. Cole's Love Yourz Analysis

One of my favorite songs, recently, has been J. Cole’s Love Yourz. This song relate to feelings that we can all relate to, feelings of envy and jealously. We often look at the life styles of those around us, and we see what they have, and we compare ourselves to them. We feel that if we don’t live a certain life style or drive a fancy car that we are not living a purposeful life. We fall into the trap of focusing on others blessings and ignoring our own. From personal experience I have done this. I have looked at the blessing of others, and wondered why my blessings were not the same. Before I continue, I just wanted to clarify a misconception. Some people get envy confused with jealously. To me, jealously has a negative and dangerous connation. To be jealous means that you have an irrational hate or anger towards a person, because they have something that you would want. Someone who is jealous cannot stand to see a
She gave me 5 pieces of wisdom that helped me get over my envy. The first piece of wisdom she gave, explained to me that I am still very young. Some of these individuals that I am envious are older and have more life experience than me. I should not compare where they are to where I am because we are at different stages in our lives, and I have plenty of time to do all of those things. The second piece of wisdom that I received was if I am envious of others blessings I may miss my own. I hear this all the time, however, it hit me that she is right. If I am continuously thinking about what others are blessed with I will not have time to receive my own blessing. Third, she informed me that I am blessed and others may be envious of my blessings. I realized that I do live a very comfortable life and I have many opportunities at my fingertips that others do not have. I should remember that others would probably kill to be in the position that I am in right