I REALLY DON'T KNOW

This morning I started my day quite early with a trip to Walmart at 4:00 am. It was the only time I had to make the necessary purchases. When I pulled into the mostly vacant Walmart parking lot, I selected a parking space near the store entrance. After parking my vehicle, I opened the door to exit and there on the ground near my car was a nice dinner spoon and a formal looking cloth napkin. I thought,"what would these obviously very expensive items be doing in a Walmart parking lot?" I then imagined a handsome couple who had been to a formal dinner and kept a spoon and napkin as a souvenir.  They needed something and since it was so late in the evening, they went to Walmart. Something sparked an argument and one of them, in frustration and anger, tossed the items out the car window. No, probably not. Perhaps it was an employee of a catering company who had just worked a large formal dinner. Yeah, that's it. He comes from very humble means and took the items so he would have something nice for himself at home. He stopped by Walmart to pick up something on the way home. He started thinking about what he had done... stealing. The guilt got to him and he discarded the items in the parking lot. No, that's not likely. Oh, I know, maybe it was a family who had been to dinner at a nice restaurant. One of the children took the spoon and napkin  unbeknown to his parents as an act of rebellion. The family stopped by Walmart on the way home and the parents purchased a new iPhone   for the kid that he had really been wanting. Realizing their parents really did listen to them and love then, they dropped the spoon and napkin in the parking lot as they got back into the car. They did not want to create a scene at home or disappoint their parents. 

I then got to thinking, I really have no idea how the spoon and napkin got there. So often in our lives we create unnecessary stress for ourselves because we try to draw conclusions on something based on information we don't have. We can reduce a great deal of stress, trouble and conflict in our lives if we will simply be honest in those moments and admit to ourselves, "I really don't know,"