Assuming something is so is not the same as verifying or knowing what’s certain. The other day a friend sent me an article. I was on a list of friends the information went to. I responded as kindly as I could to relate I did not agree with the premise of the written piece. I then assumed the friend got annoyed with me for how I believed and responded to the article. 

It turns out she was not upset with me. She thought something in the write-up would appeal to the recipients of the news story. The interesting thing is once I understood what she wanted me to get from the article she sent me, I was fine. I received her point of view and we went on happily as friends. 

Yet for two days I took for granted she did not think before she sent it to me. And considered her upset with me because of my response. Untrue. Once we talked it over there was a good point to the story and I received it. And I made an internal note to myself that once again assumptions are tricky and untrustworthy.

Assuming we know something can throw us off, especially when assumptions are incorrect. Seeking to look for what is real and actual is a good choice over our suppositions. It is a great habit to catch ourselves when we are caught in presumptions before we actually know the facts, evidence or truth.