How to Cope with Losing a Dress (Or Anything that Matters)
Note: This is not a sad post.
…which made me remember this summer dress I bought from Surplus for only P100 last year and wore in the same year, too during a visit to Manila Ocean Park:
Panic had enveloped me when I realized I haven’t seen the dress for more than a year. I desperately rummaged through my closets but to no avail. I so love this summer dress. Now it’s missing. I became restless temporarily. This is the exact feeling I get whenever something I owned gets lost or misplaced.
How do you cope with losing your personal things? Do you cry, yell or laugh? Do you exert a considerable amount of effort to find it?
First, I accepted the fact that my summer dress is missing. It takes a lot of courage to admit to yourself that you’ve been careless and as a result of it, you lost something. Unless it was stolen from you, you have to forgive yourself and try to look for it.
If you couldn’t find it within the period of time you set yourself, stop the search and get over it. Be consoled on the assumption that it’s now moving freely and owned by no one (wherever it may be) like how it once was. Or better yet, it’s now in the possession of someone who needs it more than you do.
While some people tend to replace the stuff lost with a new one to lessen the agony and as way of moving on, others get stuck to their lost and become bitter or take it against the people around them.
In the case of my summer dress, I’m still optimistic that I’ll find it.It may just be misplaced. I’ll start looking through my bags and boxes tonight. 
liked the dress. sayang naman kung di mo na makita. it’s not the price of the lost dress that counts but it’s the effort in going to a surplus store to find a worth paying item in a very considerable value. maganda sya talaga, if it was mine, i wouldn’t stop looking,
@nancy: somehow, i was touched by what you said.i loved the dress so much and you just made me sad.haaaay, if di ko na sya makikita ulit, happy na rin ako dahil nagkaroon ako ng dress na maganda one summer.thank you.
me likey that sundress too! dont worry, it will surely re-appear before you knew it.. sometimes, when you are not looking for it, it will suddenly appear…
I like the dress too! Buti ka pa, dresses look good on you, ako kasi parang jeans and shirts ang bagay sa body ko.
I think mhahanap mo din yan, palagay ko nasa mga bags yan or boxes na matagal mo ng di naggalaw. i think namisplace lang siya.
take care!
@claire: thanks. korek, pag di hinanap bakit nga ba nalitaw na lng bigla, ano? sana nga makita ko pa sya.:)
@beth: haha.thanks. i used to hate dresses because i didn’t want to look too feminine. i was on the boyish side then. but now that i’m a grown up already,i love dresses na. yep, sana makita ko pa sya. marami nanghihinayang, pati mom ko.hehe.
Parehong pareho tayo, I’m so disorganized at hindi ko na makita yung ibang mga damit ko.. minsan nakaka-sad lalo na pag favorite mo yung damit na nawawala. Pero nung nag-asawa na ako, I have to behave and be orderly kundi yari ako, hehe.