My favorite book is gone.....

@cheenlly (3476)
Philippines
May 10, 2007 9:03pm CST
Just this morning i was going nuts looking for my favorite book. I couldnt find it. We have done a general cleaning and we put some stuff in boxes. I needed it now because i want to read something again but when i look for it i couldnt find it. I've been thinking a lot like maybe my Little neices found it and make play with it, maybe my Aunt found it and bring it with her in Australia and maybe my mom include to those stuff that throw in the garbage. That book is very old and i really love it and it indeed help me a lot but i feel sad thinking it was gone. I'm trying to relax my mind now as im sharing and writing this. Sigh! I hope i will find it and not what i think it was. I really dont want to lost that. HAve you tried this kind of feeling like your thinking a lot looking for something important.
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11 responses
• United States
11 May 07
awww that is sad. If you really want to read your book now, you could borrow it at the library. If you have truly lost it, you can buy it on amazon.
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• Philippines
12 May 07
it is nice of you to have looked at the situation at the lighter side of it. of course, libraries have even the oldest books around. it will be easy to borrow one from there and then have it photocopied. there will always be somebody who can bookbind it.
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
11 May 07
Oh yes when I cannot find something that is important to me it does make me annoyed so I have to stop looking and sometimes then our minds refresh themselves and we remember where we last put it. I do hope that your Aunt did not take it here to Australia or especially that your mother did not throw it in the garbage as maybe she thought it was too old.
@cheenlly (3476)
• Philippines
12 May 07
Yeah i also feel that way, i try hard not to be bothered but when the thing is very important and it is in your heart you cant be at peace until you find it. I hope so it was not thrown or take by my Aunt. Im still looking for it. Thanks for sharing.
@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
12 May 07
I'm sorry that you aren't able to find your book hon. It's so frustrating when that happens. If I can't find something of mine that I feel I MUST have, I usually end up tearing the whole house apart looking for it. By the time I get done, it looks as if a hurricane blew through. And if I can't find what I'm looking for, I am very upset and grouchy for a while, but then I manage to cheer up one way or another. I hope that somehow you find your precious book. Good luck.
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• Philippines
12 May 07
losing some things is what happens when we undergo a general cleaning in the house. next time, before the general cleaning day, take a box and place all the things which you consider to be of value therein. this has happened to me before. not only once but, many times. it is backbreaking to be looking for something which you do not have the slightest idea as to where it could be. you take a painful task at eacn nook and cranny inside the house in the hope of finding it. then i get sick a little later from exhaustion. now, i have learned my lesson. if i look for something, i'd go easy on it. if i cannot find it, then sorry for me. it is more disadvantageous if i get sick and i didn't find the thing at the same time. it is a lose lose situation. so be easy on it, cheenlly. try looking for it in a relaxed, non-exhaustive manner. it is just a thing, a possesion which you can live without no matter how much you value it.
@liyan97 (2127)
• Northern Mariana Islands
11 May 07
"Yes" I am actually very attatched to a prayer book that I have had for many years. It consisted of over twenty pages, but after a while it has gone through so much wear and tear. Although I have got the pages stapled, marked and pretty much glued together, I still love that book....lol... At times when I have "forgoten" where I have placed it, it takes a huge toll on me! I can't concentrate the whole day felling like a huge part of me has gone missing! Just be patient, at times I realize that I was searching and worrying so much, that I lost sight on the fact that it was right in from of me to begin with....So just be patient and I am sure you will find it.Good Luck & GodBless
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@cheenlly (3476)
• Philippines
12 May 07
thanks for the comfort. Yes i hope so i will find it soon. I just hope it wasnt thrown. Its really an old book and i dont know if theres another copy of that. Everything that i have, it always have a sentimental value. So it is very important to me to find it.
@maemaemae (341)
• Philippines
12 May 07
yeah...i almost always lose stuff...money...books...calculator...my cellphone....my wallet...my ballpen....projects...my id...not all of them are important to me...but whenever something is gone, i become restless and i can't calm down unless i find it or after i cry...usually when this happens, i ask God to help me find the things i lose...almost always i find them.
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@kyle930 (763)
• United States
11 May 07
Read something new or just buy a new copy of your favorite book at the store.
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@carolynpb (647)
• United States
20 May 07
This happens to me alot and it frustrates me to no end. To lose a book I am am reading will send me into a meltdown! lol
@thefuture (1749)
• Nigeria
11 May 07
I have never experienced something like that. I can imagine how you are feeling about this and I can imagine how important the book is to you, but I think you should go out there, eventhough its not easy and get a new one of it or try to find a book similar to it. I will like encourage more to be reading motivational and inspirational books so as to build you mind positively. Thanks and have a nice day.
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@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
11 May 07
Oh no! It sounds like something you have had for a long time and that you cherish. Are you able to get ahold of the people you tihnk might have it and se if they can ship it back to you? I hope it turns up soon, that is really a shame.
• Philippines
11 May 07
ohh yes i tried it alot mostly my id that was important in me to get something to used an identification.. i put it anywhere but i could'nt find it so i put all my thing out of my wadrobe and its very missy ohhh its hard cause all the thing u take out u will back it after all...so we should put in the right place that we can remember easily
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