I was raised Catholic, so I know all about the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not covet is #10. The definition of covet is: to desire (what belongs to another). Well, the part "what belongs to another" is what gets me off the hook !!
For instance, I covet a longarm quilting machine. I don't want yours, or my neighbor's . I don't want to take stuff away from someone else - I just want one to call my very own. So even though I am coveting what you might have, I don't want to take yours!! So it's not the same, right?
We all covet stuff - we just don't call it "coveting". How did they ever come up with the word "covet" anyway? No one says " I sure do covet new wood floors in my kitchen". No, we say something more on the lines of "I want new wood floors" or "I wish I could afford new wood floors". It all means the same thing - you want something you can't have. Like I can't have a longarm quilting machine because that hefty price tag doesn't fit anywhere in my present (or future) budget. Unless I inherit a small fortune (not likely), win the lottery (even less likely) or one falls from the sky into my sewing room !! But if that happens, then I'll have to covet a larger sewing room (also not likely).
So go ahead and covet stuff ...or wish upon a star, it's pretty much all the same. Just don't take someone else's !!
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