I think a lot of people can relate to wanting to be someone else. If emotions were paint colours, what I’m feeling right now would be a mixture of red hot anger and cool blue sadness, making it purple. I guess you’d call this feeling jealousy. A therapist I saw ten years ago told me that there are no bad emotions and all emotions have a purpose. Jealousy shows us what it is we want. It is like the Mirror of Erised in Harry Potter, showing us “the most desperate desire of a person’s heart, a vision that has been known to drive men mad.” Continue reading “Something I can never have” →