What it is: Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Why you do it: Because other people are so much luckier, smarter, more attractive, and better than you.
Your punishment in Hell will be: You'll be put in freezing water.
Associated symbols: Envy is linked with the dog and the color green.
The Green-Eyed Monster 
Ruled by the celestial sign of the Moon, it is "the key behind every advertisement"
Envy Leads to Other Sins....
I guess it's pretty much inevitable at some point in everyone's life. That 'green-eyed monster' that emerges from within us. We envy others in almost anything possible - that one is more well off, richer, one's innate intelligence, pretty, handsome, gets more attention, has a great bf/gf, tangibles and intangible things and so forth... The deep dark desire within - what it would be like IF ONLY, you could have half or just a taste of what life would be like of the other party, assuming that happiness and feeling good would be achieved from it.
I don?t deny it...Of coz I do envy my friends! I'm not ashamed of that. No one's perfect! Even the most beautiful and wealthiest ppl envy others ard them. To think that such ppl are already blessed... Seems as if it's pretty hard to please everyone yea?
I think the human species are the most selfish creatures on Earth. Of coz we want what is best for ourselves; I mean who wouldn't rite? As one of the Seven Deadly Sins, ENVY destroys, causes hurt, creates grief and unhappiness. Often envy goes hand in hand with JEALOUSLY, which makes us fear to lose what we own. Both are destructive. Envy is a selfish desire that causes us to want what others have, without any effort on our part. One response to envy is to jab at those who have something we desire. We put others down in order to build ourselves up. It drives people to go to all extremes to get what they desire, even if it means hurting someone you care and love. It tears relationships apart, as at that point in time, nothing seems to matter more than one's own self! It?s sad hey? But it happens and it's a fact of life that everyone has to deal with...how one copes with it is another thing altogether...
Envy is like an 'identity' thingy - that the object of envy would complete a person as a whole. Then again, some of you might say that not everyone gets envious? However, have u considered envy to be moderately positive in certain cases, such as when you grudgingly admire what a friend has achieved, but do not like them any less or treat them differently as a result??? That?s still envy after all right???
I remember reading some article once, and it was interesting as the author described envy and jealously together as the sins of 'PERVERTED LOVE'...hmmmm...
We all need to face it...it's part and parcel of our lives. Some of us are just gonna be luckier and more happy than others, while the rest of us will have to toil and suffer and accept whatever comes our way...Life is too short to waste...it's ur decision!