Is there a time you felt intense jealousy?

What made you feel that way? If time has passed since then, do you look back and feel like you overreacted?

What do you think jealousy is, anyway? I sometimes get jealous of the attention other people get here or elsewhere. When I go unlurved for a while, I start to feel like I don’t count, or no one is interested in my words any more.

These moments of fleeting jealousy are nothing compared to how I felt when my first lover had another lover, or when a woman I was pretty serious about went upstairs at a party (that I was attending also), and ended up fucking someone. I know it happened. I heard them inside the room. I’d followed them upstairs when I saw her going with him. That’s an experience I will never forget!