More fundamentally, what is resentment doing for Alice? Why bother exerting that negative emotional energy, holding a hatred for someone else's positive change

More fundamentally, what is resentment doing for Alice? Why bother exerting that negative emotional energy, holding a hatred for someone else's positive change of circumstance? It's not like your hatred is going to change your circumstances. > See also the discussion of student debt repayment My brother and I went to the same university. His social life in high school was better than mine, but grades were worse for it, and he had to take on a lot of student debt. Meanwhile, I studied my ass off and earned a full-ride scholarship. And yet, if his loans got forgiven, I'd be ecstatic for him.