I think I might be losing it. Wait, I KNOW I am losing it.

We’ve all been there. I know I am not alone.

I have spent a lot of time looking for something that I know I did not throw out but can not locate it.

I have been thinking about it. To the point I am obsessing about it and that is seriously ridiculous.

So what is it that I have lost? Nothing super valuable but it is driving me nuts.

Before we went to the Bahamas I decided to clean my wallet out of all of the unnecessary items that I would not need. I was trying to lighten things up and there was no reason to have these things in my wallet. So I cleaned it out.

I took out all the spare change and receipts that had collected.

I took out a few credit cards that I don’t use and put them away in the lock box.

I took out membership cards. Membership cards that get me rewards or access. I took out my Barnes and Noble card, my AAA membership card and my Sam’s Club card . Those are the ones I remember. Those, my friends, are what I cannot find.

There are only a few places I would have put those temporarily and they are in none of those places. I have searched and searched and those cards are simply not in any of those places. I have a vague memory of taking them out but not of where I put them.

So today I searched again and I have decided that my absent mindedness is ridiculous. The thing is I don’t really need any of those cards. I have them all on phone in my Apple Wallet and there I can access them anytime I need them. So I don’t really need the physical cards.

But still, it bugs me. I like to think that I have some semblance of organization and control in my life and then something like this happens and I realize that it is all an illusion.

So am I alone? Have you ever misplaced something that just vanished? What I really want to know is how you reacted? Did you just brush it off and move on or did you fixate on it like I seem to be doing? I need to let it go because I imagine as soon as I do the lost cards will appear. And again, even if they don’t appear it is not the end of the world. Seriously, not the end of the world at all but irritating and it’s obviously getting under my skin. Let me know in the comments and Comment for a Cause for Transylvania County Library Foundation.