'How big is the sour grape in your heart?' Test your hidden jealousy index and imaginary enemy type

Your hidden jealousy index is 20%. You are an extremely rational person; you simply disdain having an emotional feeling like 'jealousy'. When you see others achieving something, your brain instantly activates a 'cost-benefit analysis model'. You will calculate how much cost (labor, time, health, freedom) they paid behind it. After analyzing, you usually come to a conclusion: 'Although he got that, if it were me, I wouldn't want to live that kind of life.' You use powerful logic to put yourself in an invincible position forever.

💡 Seeing a friend post about getting promoted to manager, your inner thought is: 'Extra five thousand dollars a month, but have to shoulder KPI and do 20 hours of unpaid overtime, this ROI is too low.'

Your hidden jealousy index is 85%, but your jealousy transforms into terrifying 'action power'! You are someone extremely lacking a sense of security. When you see peers doing better than you, it instantly triggers severe survival anxiety. Your first reaction isn't to hate on them, but to push yourself to death! 'He learned another language, I must sign up for classes too!', 'He goes to the gym every day, I'll start going twice a day tomorrow!' Your imaginary enemies are 'everyone running on the same track as you'. You live in an endless hell of comparison.

💡 You scroll IG and see someone working overtime to study on a weekend, you immediately jump off the sofa, close the show you planned to binge, and take out your dusty TOEIC vocab book to start memorizing.

Your hidden jealousy index is 50%, but your way of handling jealousy is very smart (or a bit cunning). When you find someone beating you in a certain area and you can't catch up no matter what, you won't stubbornly persist, you will directly 'flip the table and change the game'! If friends are all rich, you start pursuing spiritual growth; if colleagues are all great at working, you start delving into office fashion. Your imaginary enemies can never catch you, because as soon as you feel you're losing, you create a new track where only you can win.

💡 Seeing a classmate pass the bar exam, you think to yourself: 'Lawyers have huge stress and are boring, unlike me working at a cafe meeting new friends every day, my life is much more interesting.'

Your hidden jealousy index is as high as 95%! You are very competitive, and your worldview is a 'zero-sum game'—whatever others have, feels like something you lost. When you see others doing better than you, your first reaction isn't blessing, but activating a 'fault-finding mechanism'. You will sourly think 'it's just because of their family', 'how dare they post a selfie looking like that', 'what's there to show off'. Your jealousy is a double-edged sword; it fills you with upward motivation, but also makes you live very exhaustingly and hard to find true happiness.

💡 You once unfollowed a friend who kept showing off designer bags, but still secretly use a burner account to check their updates every three days and continue getting angry.

Your hidden jealousy index is 30%. You have an innate sense of 'aloofness', and you extremely despise behaviors of showing off wealth, PDA, and flaunting achievements on social media. You tell yourself 'I don't care about these mundane things', so when others try to show off to you, you respond with a detached, cold attitude seeing through the vanity. But actually, deep down you occasionally still care, you are just too proud to allow yourself to have a low-level emotion like 'jealousy'. Your imaginary enemies are those 'kitsch but successful people'.

💡 A friend shows off their latest iPhone to you, you reply coldly: 'Oh really, I don't research tech much, as long as a phone can make calls it's fine.'

Your hidden jealousy index is 10%! You are truly amazing; you seem to naturally lack a nerve called 'jealousy'. When you see others driving luxury cars, living in mansions, or marrying a rich handsome guy, your reaction is just pure amazement: 'Wow! So cool! That's too awesome!' You don't feel inferior, because you think others' lives and your life are completely different things. You are very easily satisfied; as long as you get to drink your favorite beverage today, you feel like the happiest person in the world. You have no imaginary enemies, because you are busy eating melons (watching drama).

💡 A friend complains to you about how expensive maintenance is for their newly bought Tesla, you just ask excitedly: 'Cool! Is the autopilot fun? Can you drive me next time?' completely oblivious they are showing off.

Your hidden jealousy index is 40%; rather than jealousy, it's more like you 'admire the strong'. When you see very capable, rich, or powerful people appear around you, your first reaction isn't jealousy, but 'how do I become good friends with them!' You are very good at assessing the situation; you feel others' success doesn't mean your failure, others' success is a resource you can 'leverage'. Your imaginary enemies don't exist, because you turn all potential enemies into your network.

💡 A friend shows off a new luxury car in the group chat, others are sour inside, but you are the first to jump out saying: 'Sugar daddy! Can you take me for a spin this weekend?'

Your hidden jealousy index is 80%, but your jealousy doesn't attack others, it only attacks yourself. When you see others being more excellent, prettier, or richer than you, your first reaction is 'I really suck'. You easily fall into severe inferiority complexes and appearance/achievement anxiety. You constantly magnify others' strengths while examining your own flaws with a magnifying glass. Your imaginary enemy is actually 'the ideal perfect you', and you are always fighting with that non-existent perfect phantom.

💡 Seeing a friend get into a good company, you texted 'Congratulations! That's awesome!', then silently cried in your blanket for half an hour feeling you are worthless.