About 3 months ago I lost my wallet with all my vital details, ID cards, Bank cards and few money in it. I was so distressed and disturbed because getting the new IDs back would take times and I won't be able to do many official things without my IDs.
I contacted my banks via phone immediately to block any transactions on my account till I received my new bank cards because anyone that found the cards could easily used them to by goods online and even in stores as no pins are required nowadays, just a swipe, hundreds of pounds have gone.
The following day I started calling and mapping out how to get all my other ID cards from the issuers with the planned to visit their offices one after the other on the third day.
While preparing to go out with my planned schedule on the third day morning, I heard a knock on my door and my partner went to open the door and saw a postman standing with an envelope and he announced the name on the envelope which my partner told him I was inside and he handed it over to her. I collected the envelope from her and opened it, just to find my wallet in it with everything intact except that the money used to post the wallet was taken from the money in the wallet. I was very happy and surprised and more surprised that no accompanying letter inside the envelope so that I could trace the good person to thank him for his/her good deeds.
Prior the lost and found of my wallet, I have gotten my iPhone back on 3 separate occasions when I forgot it inside the bus and trains.
Though, on my part, in 2010 and 2012, I found 1 blackberry and 1 iPhone which I returned to their owners.
This last Saturday, on my way back from work, I found this wallet with money, IDs, bank cards and other vital items in it.
Few minutes later, a friend called my phone and we discussed many things among of which I told him what I saw on the road while going home. I was surprised that he said to me that, the money was God's providence and that I'm very lucky to have found the money and demanded I sent him a voucher of £5 as padi padi friends that we are. I told him straight away that no, I must returns everything inside the wallet to the owner because I couldn't imagine the distress the owner is going through by losing his wallet which contains vital information and money. I know for sure that, getting the lost ID cards back might took him months and thus destabilising many of his already plans and scheduled.
My friend was very surprised with my responses and I requested to know why his God have to put someone else in distress to make me happy? No sensible reply from him and our conversation ended abruptly.
I headed straight to the police station nearby my house to hand over the wallet to them so that they can find the owner and give him is lost items. A policewoman was so happy that I could return a wallet with money inside it to his owner. I told her that someone else returned mine too when I lost it.
The wallet owner called me today and demanded that we meet for some bottles of drink on the weekend evening. I felt happiness in his voice, the same way I was very happy when mine was returned to me.
You don't need religion to have morals, if you can't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy not religion.
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