Lost and Found

I am amazed. Stunned. Shocked. Bowled over by the fact that, my spectacles have been lost and found, in the most unexpected situation.

Even though this sounds crazy, even though people may tell me that it's all but simple coincidence and luck, I still have to jot this story down in my blog... to express my gratitude.

Yesterday in school, I lost my spectacles and I could not find it anywhere despite retracing my footsteps to where I had my lectures and studied. What's new, I thought? It was not the first time that I lost yet, another pair of specs, as careless as I was. For a long time now, when I lost something, or thought I lost something, I will usually recover the item within a few days, or perhaps I just forgot where I placed it. I think some of my friends are used to me complaining that I lost something, only to tell them sheepishly that I found it in my bag, or in my car. But this time, I completely had no idea where my spectacles could have dropped, because I had little recollection of when was the last time I had it on me. But I know I lost it in school. Luckily, I know I had a spare pair, and was using it this morning and last night anyway. In my mind, the missing pair of spectacles was as good as gone.

Last night, I attended this event at Burswood, by myself. I didn't tell anybody about it.. well, I like to think that I just neglected to mention it to anyone, for it was merely for my own interest. (Truth is, if you're my friend and you're reading this now, you probably think i'm nuts) The guests of the show were Doreen Virtue, and Gordon Smith. I had come across Doreen Virtue in her website regarding angel therapy. By angel therapy I mean engaging angels' help in healing and wisdom in your everyday life. That is, if you believe in angels. Since secondary school I have always been more than interested in the New Age type of spirituality, and though it went away for a while, my interest re-established itself after I was no longer involved in a relationship.

All along, angels always came across to me as, something that I would like to believe in, but I don't. Things like that seemed miraculous and too good to be true, and I don't forsee any miracles happening to me. When I read about Doreen's upcoming event in a newspaper, seeing how popular and internationally aclaimed she is, I decided to give her, and myself, a chance by going for it, unfortunately, with my usual sceptic mentality. I found myself surrounded by heaps and heaps of people who, unlike me, have had experiences with angel interventions in their lives, and I felt overwhelmed. After all, I was coming face to face with people who simply had no doubt about the existence of angels because they are working with them, communicating with them. Doreen was a wonderful and inspirational speaker. She was literally shining with sincerity. Over the short one and half hours that she was allocated, she picked out a few people to give angel readings to. ( To understand this, first you must know that EVERYONE, regardless of how you have behaved in your life and whether you think you are deserving or not, has at least 2 guardian angels, who would have been there since the day he or she is born. Whether you acknowledge their presence or not, it doesn't matter.. they are there) Anyway, what I am trying to say is, what I saw last night was amazing. She talked to people about their lives, and connected to them through intricate details, as told to her by the person's angels. Of course people like us couldn't see anything but Doreen pausing occasionally, as though listening to someone telling her something. But it was obvious that it was simply not a hoax, and she wasn't guessing based on the person's reaction, because she was 100% accurate, and the people she picked out were quite random.

The main take home message yesterday, for all of us, believers and non-believers included, was that we could ask for angel intervention and help any time, and that they are always with us. What was most memorable to me was that at the start, she asked for our guardian angels to make their presence known to us, and told us sense for any difference around and behind our shoulders, as that was where the guardian angels usually are. I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination, but i did detect a heaviness on my shoulders, and to my embarassment, I suddenly felt like crying. But nobody else did, so I don't know what's wrong.

So with an idea of the big picture, I went home and thought about it this morning. I decided to test it out. Knowing how impossible it seems for me to retrieve my spectacles that I lost in school, I asked my angels to help find a way to return it to me. I know that this sounds like a terribly lame thing to do, but I didn't care, after all, no one was ever going to know what was going through my head, if nothing ever happened. The day at school passed uneventfully and I checked the last place that I thought I could have dropped my spectacles. Because I had a test tomorrow, I decided to go home early to study and not attend my last lectures unlike most of my other friends. I admit, back at home, I was feeling kind of disappointed, that nothing had happened to "prove" to me the existence of angels. I had no idea how, but I was hoping that my spectacles would miraculously "fly" back to me.

Just an hour ago, my housemate Brian came home and knocked on my door. He said he had something for me, and handed me my spectacles. I was speechless. He told me that he had gone ahead to buy lunch with the others and while walking along he suddenly looked down and there he saw a pair of spectacles. It was camouflaged against the side of the pavement. He wasn't even sure if it was mine, but brought it back after few confirmations from other friends. How coincidental was that! Or was it coincidence, or not? Judging by the odds of finding it again like this, I decided to believe in my "request" for proof, that angels really do exist. And that's why I am writing this down.