The Green Eyed Monster!!!
On jealousy, irrational thoughts and the strange things insecurity can do to the mind.

It creeps unawares from deep down someplace within you, rapidly moving up to give you a sharp stab right in the middle of your heart. You can actually feel its ascent… the way it slithers fast, like a hissing, poisonous snake, whose forked tongue keeps pricking your mind, filling it with an intense darkness where you can see only a totally magnified version of whatever is bothering you.
Your vision narrows down along with your mind, and you are bombarded with a multitude of petty thoughts that keep nagging you at every step.
Like a bloodthirsty vampire, it sucks the happiness out of your heart, replacing it with unnecessary, illogical doubts that only intensify the darkest of emotions enveloping your mind. One after the other, needless thoughts of an evil and suspicious nature start sneaking into your overactive mind, which has been clouded by a shroud of dark delusions, causing it to fill with a great deal of anger and misery born out of insecurity.
Beware of the green-eyed monster.
It is more fatal than a virus that attacks your whole system and more dangerous than the deadliest of weapons intended to kill. What it does is attack from within, filling your mind with the most irrational of thoughts, combined with a blind fury that often leads to a deluge of tears.
All this happens within a fraction of a second, often leading to disastrous consequences, depending on the shade of green you have become.
I doubt if any human being in this world has ever bypassed this emotion.
Welcome to the world of pure jealousy!
First published on my first blog, God’s Own Country!!!, 24 March 2015.