I Had It A Minute Ago!
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
There are certain items that truly are magical. They function on some surreal level. Their ability to disappear completely into thin air is baffling though.
Seriously, where do those socks go?
Every single time you do a wash, take it to the bank, more go in then come out. Are washing machines made with some hidden sock disintegrator?
Like maybe, washing machine manufacturers feel they don’t really get a fair return on investment and therefore, they take that frustration out on everyone. It’s not like you’re forgetting to take those socks out. You stick your hand in, fish around, and nothing! Two go in one comes out! This has been a mysterious fact across language barriers and borders from the beginning of time.
And what about all those pens you had? You store them in your kitchen, your desk drawer, your pocketbook. However, wherever you stock pile them they inevitably dwindle down to nothing.
I understand when you are out and about you can possibly leave a pen somewhere or walk off with someone else’s. But in the kitchen? Like are you inadvertently throwing them in to your recipes?
Presumably one could blame it on everyone in the house grabbing one till there are none left. But, I’ve seen that this happens even when people are living alone. I’d say pens certainly earn the status of belonging in that category of mystery ‘disappearers’!
Here’s another one: ‘a favorite sweater’. People aver – “I just wore it last week. I’m sure I put it right here. I’m positive!! Or did I give it to the cleaners on Monday, or hang it up in the coat closet? Maybe I left it on the couch in the den- actually did I wear it to dinner the other night and leave it on the back of the chair. I guess it will turn up one of these days but, it feels like it disappeared into thin air”.
What about that email? You know the one you wanted to review this weekend. Of course, your emails are piling up as high as Mt Everest, but, the one you really needed to focus on -it’s nowhere to be found! Did it go to trash, junk mail, or perhaps did it forward itself even very possibly to the last person you would want to see it. In the alternative, did it very considerately decide to self -delete just to lighten your load?
These endless mysteries exist in many areas.
For instance:
Who stole the gasoline in the car? “I just filled it up
– how is it on empty”?
“I just bought the coffee creamer -did it evaporate”?
“In fact, who used up the coffee all together “?
“Toothpaste – how is it done? I just opened the tube?!”
“That cup I just put down- where’d it get to?”
“My slice of cake- I just started eating it – who finished it?”
The number of things that are being confiscated by some mystery force are endless, when we really think about it. There is definitely some unidentifiable energy operating … in the washing machine, the kitchen, in your closet, your car, etc. that changes the balance of amounts.
The good news is that since this is a universal phenomenon, you can rest assured that, – IT IS NOT YOU! You are not alone, and you are not going crazy. These are truths that have existed since the beginning of time.
Perhaps when we find those missing socks, we will begin to unearth the long hidden secret of how and where these items actually disappear to.
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com
