Name: 【TED】An Ode to Envy | Parul Sehgal | TED Talks
Uploaded: 2015-10-11T11:45:01.000Z
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She had vast quantities of very shiny hair

And I just curdled with jealousy that year,

So one day I stayed a little late after school,

a little too late, and I lurked in the girls' bathroom.

and took from my teacher's desk the grade book.

just a little, just demoted some of those A's.

And I got ready to return the book to the drawer,

when hang on, some of my other classmates

just because I was there, you know, might as well.

I don't understand where the idea came from.

I don't understand why I felt so great doing it.

I don't understand why I was never caught.

I mean, it should have been so blatantly obvious.

that this little girl, this tiny little girl,

It's so mysterious, and it's so pervasive.

We know primates do. Bluebirds are actually very prone.

We know that jealousy is the number one cause

In fact, I don't know if it's an exaggeration to say

because we're losing "Sound and the Fury,"

I know it's fashionable to say that Proust

This year is the centennial of his masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time,"

and it's the most exhaustive study of sexual jealousy

and just regular competitiveness, my brand,

We think about a little boy trying to get to sleep.

We think about a madeleine moistened in lavender tea.

I mean, these are books that Virginia Woolf said

Let's look at why they go so well together,

the novel and jealousy, jealousy and Proust.

Is it something as obvious as that jealousy,

which boils down into person, desire, impediment,

I don't know. I think it cuts very close to the bone,

When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story.

We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives,

because they're designed to make us feel terrible.

As the teller of the tale and the audience,

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【TED】An Ode to Envy | Parul Sehgal | TED Talks

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