There is this sentence which our very favourite chemistry professor told us in one of the lectures which however hard I try cannot wave it off.
"The nature of human beings,” he said, “is to be jealous. It’s partly because of the atoms we’re made of.”
Jealousy. He called it elemental, inevitable. A property woven into us, rooted as deeply as the atomic bonds that hold us together. And the more I thought about it, the more it made an uncomfortable kind of sense. Every jealous thought, every envious pang that claws at our chest, isn’t just metaphorical chemistry. It’s literal chemistry. Our instincts, our fears, our desires—they’re all shaped by some invisible rules.
Electronegativity. The way some atoms attract electrons more strongly than others. It’s a measure of greed, a hierarchy of longing. Humans, too, are unequal in what they crave and how they take. Some draw others toward them effortlessly, while others are left orbiting, unfulfilled.— % &But what our professor missed out, I feel is that atoms, for all their selfishness, are also astonishingly cooperative. The bonds they form give rise to molecules, and molecules give rise to life. What starts as a grab for electrons becomes the foundation for everything we love.
We want to believe we’re better than the atoms we’re made of. But the truth is, we’re bound by the same forces. Jealousy isn’t a flaw; it’s a feature. A law of nature written into the blueprint of who we are.
And maybe, just maybe, the key isn’t to fight it but to understand it—to see jealousy not as a weakness but as a reminder of what it means to be human. To want. To bond. To never let go.— % &-
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