A Lesson in Losing

So today was quite the day. I had my cell phone stolen. The sad thing is, it really wasn't that great of a phone. Not very expensive and no fancy gadgets on it like they have nowadays. It didn't have internet, games, nothing. But that phone meant the absolute world to me.

I sat it down in the bank next to me to take out some cash and a young boy, nothing remarkable about him at all, stole it.  Everything happened so quickly and before you know it I was out of a phone.

What I don't understand is why? If he tried to sell it, I can assure you he wouldn't get more then $20 for it. And that's being very generous. It isn't worth the time or effort. I reported the phone stolen within minutes so he couldn't even USE it if he wanted to.

I guess what I am trying to say is, that phone meant nothing to him and nothing to anyone else. But it meant everything to me. I had that phone when I found the love of my life, my soulmate. I still had the text when I jokingly asked her to marry me and she responded with three very enthusiastic yeses.

That picture of her as she just woke up, cuddling her duckie, looking all sleepy and beautiful. The one I asked her to send because she was so far away and I wanted to see her in her morning. Looking softer then I remembered with those tender slope shoulders and big blue eyes.

Everything started with that phone and I wanted to have it forever. And I will admit when I came home and realized this wasn't a nightmare and there was no waking up, I cried like a baby. I cried til there were no tears left, and I cried a little more.

Now the funny thing is, I go through phones the way women go through bra's. And if you're a woman, you will understand exactly what I am saying there. I loose them, drop them in toilets. Once, it even got ran over by a car. You name it, it's happened to me. I'm considering buying them in bulk.

And I've always laughed it off  and told myself, no biggie. It's just a phone. But this time was different. This time it was more then just a phone. And it was stolen from me.  That was a hard pill for me to swallow and I honestly thought I would never get over it.

Then two things happened to me. The first was my sister. I am sitting on Facebook IM'ing her and crying at the same time. Now my sister has got a natural gift. She can make just about anyone laugh and I am certainly no exception. In no time flat she had me seeing the humor in a situation I had previously thought was completely void of it.

The next thing that happened was I was scrolling through my friends page (okay, stalking a little ) and I came across a quote she had written that helped me put everything in perspective. She wrote:

You cannot loose what is most important in life.

And what is important in life will be revealed when

everything else is lost.

~Lisa Gillon 2008 AD

I loved it and had to borrow it because it's true. Yes, those text and those pictures and that phone held soo many valuable things to me. I won't ever get them back and I will never see that phone again. But I have something much better then that. I got the girl.