My daddy had an annoying habit.
When I lost something, which was quite often, he would ask me where I had it last.
As a teenager, I always wanted to reply, “Einstein, if I knew where I had it last, I’d know where it is.”
I was a very compliant child, so I just bit my tongue in frustration and continued my search.
One day my dad and I connected in some strange cosmic anomaly. He realized my frustrations and asked me why I was so mad at him.
“It makes me so mad because if I knew where I had it last, I would know where it is,” I replied.
“No. If you know where you ‘think you had it last’ we can start from there and try to reconstruct where you went, or what you did next,” said my wise father.
The cosmic anomaly opened my eyes to a new way of thinking.
First, my daddy wasn’t trying to irritate me, he was trying to help. Second, strange cosmic anomalies do exist. Third, and most important to me is, “Where DID I have it last?”
My glasses, my phone, my keys, my sanity, my memory… when I follow the ‘where did I have it last’ method, I almost always recover that thing which I lost.
It works well for glasses, phones, and keys…
my sanity, my memory… these… ?
Where DID I have them last?
