"Jealousy is just a map, that’s all it is. If you’re jealous of someone, what it is is “Oh why aren’t I there?” and then all it is is the point you want to go to on a map, and you’ve just got to fill in the path to get there. That’s all it is, that’s all jealousy is. If you think of jealousy as “Oh, it means that I am less of a person or I’m wrong or I’m..”, then of course you’re going to get stuck in this dark black pit that you’re not gonna to get out of, but if you think “It’s a map, oh…"
—Patton Oswalt on Comedy & Everything Else #48. He kinda trails off, mainly because the hosts interrupt him, but he’s basically saying, yes, if you think of it as a map you can find your way to where you want to go. Via Meghan.
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Interesting thought, but I think that he’s talking about envy, not jealousy.
