Any time i've heard someone speak with candor (looking reflectively at themselves) of their own jealousy of another's wealth, success, material what-have-you, experiences, it seems everyone else shrinks in a bit... as if to say that that emotion/feeling is something to be shunned. Even though... and here's the kicker...
...every one of us has felt this... i'd bet on it.  So why the judgement?

We just often don't label jealousy as such*... instead.. it seems a lot of people would rather take-that-other-person-down, throw some shade, make them smaller, speak bad about them, ruin their reputation... somehow create some negative loosh to proverbially feed upon - get some negative oxytocin by badmouthing.


Why isn't it, instead, more acceptable to acknowledge the emotion... without placing a label on it... accept that that feeling is something honest, truthful (leave out the actions and thoughts that could potentially hurt that other person)... and use it as a honing tool to find out where we're not living and loving our own selves and the things we're doing in our lives?

It is, that is, the feeling of jealousy, envy and covetousness, just a barometer and part of our navigation system.

As long as we're not intentionally projecting harm ... it seems to me the healthier expression of feeling those types of feelings is just to focus on it and reflect upon why that feeling is actually there. 

Maybe do a Byron Katie "The Work" worksheet... maybe ask what it REALLY is that we want to have/experience/discover in our own lives... because usually it is NOT what the other person/group/community has... that is, imo, their own path/s... but what resonance is it that we are seeing in that other.... that brings us back to wanting something our own variation of "that thing?"

Blessings.
JR


*in the USA, i've heard many people honestly express "i'm so jealous!" and mean it in a light-hearted way... fully reflecting upon the emotion... somehow conveying the desire without creating harm.  In Germany, so far, it seems to still be very, very taboo.