Lost

I am usually very careful about things in general. And there's a definite method to my madness. My shelves/room/offices have always been messy but never dirty. And I hate it when someone tries to arrange my mess for me. I can find things easier in my mess than when it's organized according to someone else's vision. And so even when back in India, when my chittipaati tirelessly offered to arrange my bookshelf, I've vehemently turned it down each time. Sometimes though, because she ran out of other things to organize, she'd try to make sense of my bookshelf, missing the key point in it - to keep the titles visible. She would stack my books one upon the other, page-side-front while stacking the spines against the wall. Consequently it was hard to make out which book was which. I did appreciate her efforts, even though I took the first opportunity to revert it. Recently though I've been losing stuff. And if that means, I actually look for it, it means it was valuable enough. And the curse for me has been my earrings. And typically I lose 1 of the pair. I received a pretty pair of gold earrings as a wedding present from a dear friend... and I wore them to UK. Sure enough, I lost one in a friend's car I assumed. But they never found it. The other time was when I went to Rome this time. Another one of one of my favourite pairs vanished. And this one on the plane or while getting into it. Talk about bad luck. And these are not one of those places that I am likely to ever locate them again. I know that my messy organization had nothing to do with losing stuff. But sometimes you know when you are looking for something, you end up finding something else that you were looking for once upon a time. Sadly, that's not going to happen this time. And the only change that I've made in my pattern is never to buy the U-shaped, rubber-stopperless earrings which have a way of falling off... and they're usually so light that you don't notice one of them is gone till you catch your own reflection somewhere or someone tells you so. Hmph.