Unintentional Stealing: How Your Belongings Became Mine

There have been numerous times in my like where I've asked to "borrow" something when I really had no intention of giving it back.  Like, for example, a piece of gum from my mom (but come on, would she really want that back?), or a pencil from a friend.  But what seems to happen more often than this permanent borrowing is untintentional stealing.  There are so many things in my house that did not start out as my family's belongings.  There's the pink Nalgene I used to use, now in the possession of my sister, though originally it belonged ot an aunt who left it at our house.  (Oh yeah, just let us know if you want that back...)  
      One of my favorite unintentional stealing phenemenons is with silverware.  How we ended up with at least 15 forks from other silverware sets I'll never know, but we always used to consider those stolen ones the "special" forks.  I'm sure everyone has participated in some form of unintentional stealing.  Whether it's that DVD from your friend that you forgot to return, or you neglected to take the hotel key out of your purse when you left.  I'm also pretty sure that most people have probably been accidentally stolen from.  A sweatshirt left at a sleepover, never to be reutrned, extra dessert packed away in the wrong bag at the end of a picnic, or an identical lunchbox being taken in a case of mistaken identity.  
      Since everyone (probably) is involved in both the stealing and the losing items aspects of unintentional stealing, I say we don't try to stop it.  Maybe those belongings were meant to be with different owners; for example, I have a cute headband that's served me quite well, though it originally belonged to a friend.  I think the headband was meant to be with me but had to take a journey to get here.  It's the same principle with soul mates - they'll find you at the right time, and you were meant to be together, no matter how difficult the journey to each other was.  So accept your new (and previously used) belongings, because they were meant to belong to you.  And forget about the green hat you left at the game, because now it's found the owner with whom it was meant to be.  And previous owner of the cool headband?  Yeah, sorry, you're never getting that back...