Do you find yourself seeing happy people, and it makes you feel jealous and annoyed? Haters will lash out at happy people, and find any reason to bring down someone else in order to make themselves feel better. For example, maybe your friend bought a house, and you wish you could have one, too. But your immediate reaction is to say something catty and passive-aggressive, like “good luck paying for those expensive repairs!”

Does this describe you? First of all, if this is you, I am sorry that you are in so much pain. I am sorry that someone hurt you and made you feel like you cannot achieve the things you want in your life. The truth is that you can be happy. And once you are happy, you will learn that the best thing we can do is be happy for others who are succeeding. And these happy, successful people support one another to keep getting better. Perhaps the best part about being genuinely happy for someone else is that you get to share happiness with the other person.