Found & lost?

Days after relentless search, I gave up. I gave up on the hope of finding my favorite bracelet that was gifted by a special friend. My hope took away with it, the patience I owned to search. With the loss of the key ingredients of the mission, I convinced myself to forget about it. In an attempt to catalyze the process, I got myself another one. Soon enough, the thoughts of it waned away until this evening when it decided to make its unexpected appearance under a stack of clothes in the corner of the closet. I wonder how it even got there. Anyways, it felt awesome to realize, what was believed to have lost is now found!

My memory flashed back to a series of such lost and found experiences, small and big, visible and invisible. Each one of them brought unique sense of happiness right after the find. It’s a feeling that every living being with a sense of memory would have experienced one time or the other.

These experiences are quite so common in almost every one’s life. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of the feelings brought by experiences the other way round. I am sure there must be many. ‘Lost & Found’ experiences may not necessarily have a history associated to them, but the ones with the ‘Found & Lost’ obviously do. And unlike the former experience, the latter is painful; sometimes to the extent of creating a void, a question whether they would ever be found again!