I Have Lost My - Mind?

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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