Jealousy

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”Joseph Addison

Will you feel jealous if someone you loves is out with another person though it may be a friend? Spoke to a friend about it. And unbelievably, no jealousy was traced. However, the facial expression revealed a sense of jealousy but when asked further, the party was unpertubed about the issue and insist on having no reason to be jealous.

My question then is: If you are not jealous, does that mean you dont feel anything for the other party? Could it also be a scenario of “Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it”Lord Byron as Love exist when jealousy is in existent" . So how certain can you be about how the person feels when he or she is not disturbed even though the other party the boyfriend or girlfriend is meeting used to like the latter. The reply my friend gave was the other party was no competitor. Maybe the level of confidence one has as "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”Robert A. Heinlein. Maybe there's truth to that. Rather than wasting time to be jealous about nothing, its best if one indluge in thinking about improving something.