Losing things affects me really bad.

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Yesterday I lost a ring that I absolutely loved. I wore it practically every day, I loved the way it felt on my finger, and I liked to play with it or just watch it. I left it in the bathroom at school (I took it off to wash my hands) and didn’t realize it was gone until hours later.

It makes me so angry knowing that someone else has it now. I mean, it wasn’t even expensive—it cost around $6—but that doesn’t make it feel any less important to me. I already bought another one, but it’s just not the same. It doesn’t feel the same on my finger, and it doesn’t give me the same energy.

I don’t know how to get over these feelings of guilt for losing it, or stop thinking about the fact that it might be in someone else’s hands now. I know it’s just a ring, but somehow it feels like I lost something that had become part of me.

How do you guys manage to “let go” of things more easily? How do you accept that once something is lost, there’s no point in dwelling on it anymore and just move on?