Throughout my adult life, I have heard people say that they
lost their keys. I have never understood
how they do that. Do they place them in
a different place each day? Being a
woman, I keep mine in my purse, always in the same pocket in my purse, so I
would have to lose my entire purse to lose my keys.
I have always heard people talk about locking themselves out
of their cars, leaving the keys inside.
For the first time ever, I did it – not once, but twice this year! Both times, I had my hands full, holding my
purse and other things, so much “stuff” that I didn’t notice that I had not
picked up my keys I had placed on the seat next to me. My husband had to rescue me both times, and I
felt very foolish.
Another thing I have heard about people doing frequently is
losing their sunglasses. I have heard of
people losing pair after pair. My eyes
are very sensitive to the sun and bright lights. So, when I am outdoors, I always wear sunglasses. For most of my life, I wore prescription sunglasses
that I had to trade off and on with my regular eyeglasses when I went from
inside to outside or vice versa. Inconvenient,
but I never lost a pair. Last year, I
discovered a new kind of sunglasses (at least new to me) that fit over my
regular glasses. Not the clip on kind, a
full pair of glasses. I still I have to
remove them when I go indoors, I do not have to take off my eyeglasses. They are very stylish and comfortable. I love them!
My usual routine is to keep my sunglasses in my car so I’ll
have them whenever I go out.
Occasionally, I’ll forget and wear them into my house. When I do, I place
them next to my purse, which I always keep in the same place, so I’ll remember
to take them when I go out again. When I’m
wearing them to a store, for instance, I simply lift the sunglasses up and wear
them on top of my head until I go back outside.
At some time in the last couple days, I didn’t follow my
usual routine. When I was ready to drive
off to town this morning, I noticed my sunglasses were not in the usual place
in my car. The spot I normally keep my
purse in the house was a bit cluttered today, so I was sure that my sunglasses
were sitting by the stack of Christmas cards and gifts I have ready to
mail. I went back into the house, but my
glasses were not there!
I searched everywhere in the car, under seats and all the
gaps between seats and the center console.
No luck. I went back into the
house and searched everywhere I could imagine, but I did not find them. These
sunglasses are “special,” not the kind you buy at a local store. To replace them, I have to go to an optometrist
and only a few carry this type of sunglasses.
I follow routines in a few areas of my life, which actually
can be worse than not following any routine.
When I do break my routine, as I have with my sunglasses, it is
difficult for me to imagine what happened when I failed to follow my usual
steps. I cannot think why I didn’t put
my glasses in the normal place, and where that out-of-normal place could be. How do people who do not have a “normal”
place for things find what they have lost?
Tomorrow I will buy new sunglasses (after which I likely
will find the old ones). For today, I
must now focus on something over which I have control and start working for the
day. I will never again judge people about losing their keys, locking
themselves out of their cars or losing sunglasses since I am now one of “them.”
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