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help me with this li'l wrinkle...

ok - so, my life, I feel, is pretty amazing. In fact, I just came back from a month in India, all paid for by a very dear and generous friend of mine (actually, he says there's nobody to thank. he's just a conduit for source.) just saying this as a precursor "rave" to the complaint that's coming next, lol. I bought a painting at the beginning of the trip, and I successfully carried it all throughout India, north to south, on and off airplanes and cars, in and out of hotels... well, on the way home, I allowed a stewardess to take it from me so that she could store it in the airplane locker, so that it would be "safe." you may know where this is going... On the way off the plane in Singapore, I was so sleepy/out of it, that I forgot to ask for it back. I've been calling the lost and found office for days (got back on Monday the 26th), left two emails, called the U.S. office, filed a report - actually, I even told the airline rep in person the moment I realized what had happened. Anyway - I've been trying to let it go, but what keeps coming up is 1)aargh! how could I be so stoopid! 2)I feel extra "d'oh!" because in the moment she placed it in the locker, I let a thought come up about how ironic it would be if I lost it at that point 3)I'm perplexed, because usually when I lose things, I can manifest 'em right back 4)I reeeeelly want it back! like, really really... 5)annoyance at the kafka-esque adventure I'm having with the lost and found people 6)I keep asking myself why this happened, and I can't come up with an answer. If anyone can shoot me over some gems of wisdom to help me work - er, "play" through this, I would really appreciate it! I'm just a hair away from being okay with never seeing it again, but I think it's a pretty big hair :) I was even thinking of making an appointment with a D.O. giver for this one, but I thought I'd try the forum first. Thank you!
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congratulations

thanks for sharing, Camille! How fabulous to experience your increased (again) ease and joy through this with you through your words. Love your humour! Love, Gabriele

thank you!

and in true Camille-style... duh-dahhhh!!! it has resurfaced and is on its way back to me. and yes, as one of you pointed out, I was already laughing about it, even just moments after I realized it was 'lost'. I had been traveling with my mom, who SNORES, and we were joking that its purpose was to allow me to get at least a few hours of sleep (I used it as a poking stick at night, hahahah).

sorry for the delayed response to your responses! I appreciate all of you... . anyway - after I wrote this, I realized it was just my sort of "diving in" and allowing me to feel annoyed and a li'l sad. sort of grieving the painting so I could move on, y'know? I decided I had done what I could do, and that the painting 1)had done what it needed to do with me (sleep aid - I loves me some sleep) and 2) it's not real! What's there to get all torqued up about? I just let it go and prostrated so that I could feel I was actually physically giving it (it - not just the painting, but whatever emotions/energies were tied up) up to my "large self" to deal with. So I really really let it go (although, I must admit, I could *feel* it was ok somewhere, having adventures without me, and that was fine!). I just decided to keep my vibration up and have fun...

so, it'll be back in my hands soon. apparently traipsing all over India for a month wasn't enough - with me out of the way, it had to go see some REAL sights :)

Thanks again for your care and attention!

much love,
Camille

little wrinkle

Good words from everyone who posted in my view. I would add, mainly to Gabriele's comments that perhaps words from one of the "A Course In Miracles" lesson would apply here. I believe this, if not exact, is at least accurate: "I give everything I see all the meaning it has for me." So you get to choose, either purposely or not about the importance of this picture and the loss of it. In finishing this, one thing I have found helpful is saying to myself "I forgive you for . . ." Best Wishes for a peaceful resolution for you.

Well, your situation feels

Well, your situation feels very familiar... I have been disappointed with myself when I didn't follow through on a clue, albeit a subtle one. Someday I'll get this! I realize I vibrate the things that happen to me whether I would consciously have chosen them or not. I choose to accept the form that takes place in the proximity of this moment. Even the thought of something missing is "form". Fortunately I have been able to let go of things by diving in and feeling the feeling. This really really works! The results for me have been phenomenal. Things previously resisted have been replaced, that is, more beneficial things allowed, flow to me effortlessly. I can tell you are almost ready to laugh about the irony of carrying that painting around for so long and for so many miles, effecting a strong attachment(?), before "losing it". There could be a certain freedom in that.

Disrespect reality

Hi, I see you already got a great answer, but I thought I'd add this...I lost two things lately that both turned up after I accepted they were probably gone. And I usually never lose things. Anyway, I recently had an aha-moment, when it struck me that as time is all happening NOW, the past and the future is available in the present. Does that make sense? What would happen if you stop calling the lost and found department, and don't think about the story of the painting as lost, but merely somewhere else right now? Can you soften the feeling? Remember; disrespect reality! Don't get stuck in the story. Wish you the best of luck!

aim for the essence

Hi Camille, my suggestion for playing with this would be to ask yourself what this painting means to you. What makes it so precious to you, how do you feel when you look at it (even now in your mind) and what does it stir in you?
Maybe you can ask The Divine to help you enjoy this feeling more often in general and keep shifting the things that this painting started to shift for you?
Maybe you can even soar on that feeling now?
See where and how it could play out in your life more and how wonderful that is?

Playing with the vibration you sensed in that painting (and thinking of the painting itself, not how you lost it, but what you remember seeing in it, will bring that vibration so nicely back immediately) will tune you in on it more again, which is what you actually got it for, I guess :-)

Plus it will cause your vibration to match it again and thus help it show up again :-))
Unless, which is another possibility, you don't even need the painting any more. It might be that whatever it stirred in you has already done its job and you can live it, play with it right here and now in your life...

Am curious how you feel about this and sending lots of love, joy and courage, Gabriele (Divine Openings Giver)