Rather than raving against the rapidity of other people's progress, it is better to look within, work on your deficiencies, lengthen your stride and catch up. It'll be a foolish thing to allow envy and anger to reduce the rate of your personal advancement. That's like cursing the darkness when you have a candle to light.
Holding resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage is bad for you, because it will make you not do the things that you're capable of doing, or do things that you'll regret later. Sometimes you need to overstand that you cannot have it all, that God will always give you what some people lack, and give to some what you lack. This is why we will always be in need of each other, and that's what makes life interesting. There's no fun in being an Island, and absolutely no gain in being injurious or destructive to the lives of others.
If you ask me, being admiring of what other people have is a very human and normal thing, but don't forget to value what you own. To sit and wish that no one gets hold of the things that you cannot have is an all wrong - zero over hundred.
Also, when you pray, keep it clean and sincere, knowing that God is watching. You cannot pray for other people's advancement to a higher state, only to become overly envious the moment they're perceived to be getting ahead of you. That's a stupid thing to do, although very common these days.
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