She is always genuinely happy for others when they succeed. I have known others who feign happiness, but are drama queens and are miserable when others succeed in marriage, friendships, business and so much else. They are miserable and seek that others are "like unto themselves" - just as their master does...... I have sought to isolate her as much as I can from those who carry on selfish existences in order to keep that spark of innate amazingness alive and as unspoiled for as long as I can, so that this trait will flourish into her adulthood (which will include Millennial living).
In a telestial world, there is a limit to supply, so there is competition for those limited goods. The false thinking goes, "If someone else succeeds, I fail (or do not get what they otherwise are getting". Mine, mine, mine...... Get, get, get - to consume it upon their lusts. Having - just to have. This thinking will NOT succeed in a Consecrated world where success means having sufficient for your needs and where you esteem your neighbor as yourself (in other words - if they are starving, you will starve).
A terrestrial world is based on the idea that there is enough for all to have what they need to meet their potential - and the concept of limited supply begins to go by the wayside. This fertile ground is where the training and qualification for the next level can take place. If we simply cannot qualify for the living in a terrestrial sphere - we will NEVER qualify for living in a celestial sphere where we will be entrusted to have up to and including all that Father has (which is, by definition, limitless to our finite minds). In order to qualify for that kind of power and unfettered access to a limitless potential, we have to have it as part of our inner-most being. At the core of who we are.
Selfishness and self-interest must be extinguished. Competition to "crush" an "opponent" has to be eliminated if we are to live in a world where there is no war and no enmity with our fellow man. Yet, we are inundated in our culture with the rubbish broadcast 24/7 where it is about elimination of your competitor at any cost (reality tv). We are being programmed to ruthlessly eliminate any obstacles at any cost. In reality, we need to program ourselves to eliminate evil at any cost - but to love the sinner. When the sinner is too toxic, the best thing that can happen is to simply walk away - and leave them to themselves to "kick against the pricks" and fight against good principle. In the pre-mortal realms, this very thing was done to separate those operating on good principle from those operating on bad principle. The cancer was excised from the body - once redemption clearly was no longer possible. The same thing has been done over and over from Enoch to Lehi to the Ten Tribes in order to preserve a righteous branch. This will shortly come to pass once again - and many call it the call-out. They are correct in their thinking.
Here is a quote from Elder Perry that got me thinking down these lines:
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