How sometimes tiny thoughts of yours make you space out and nervous, and make you do a mistake no one expects from you. As I am a perfectionist, I clearly check everything happens accordingly with flow and proper procedures.
But this time, my thoughts made me make a mistake, and this cost me heavily. As a modern writer, you always want to remain with your laptop for writing; otherwise, some writers still prefer to use a typewriter. But I forgot my laptop at airport security check-in.
I don’t know how this happened, but I didn’t realise it till I reached home after four hours. You can imagine how shocked I was when I opened my bag and saw it missing.
As you all know, I have not been writing for the past 12 days because of this incident. And honestly, those days felt quite empty. Writing has become such an important part of my daily life that without it, something felt missing.
I got my laptop back yesterday, and I am writing this article to share all this with you. Because sometimes it’s important to share even the imperfect side of life.
We humans tend to make mistakes; we are not perfect. Sometimes even the most perfectionist person makes a mistake no one thought of, because everyone already thinks highly of him.
And sometimes even the person who always does mistakes ends up finishing work smoothly without any problems. This is something we forget often - that life doesn’t always go according to our plans.
Through this incident of mine, I want all of you to know that problems always come in life unexpectedly; it really does not matter.
What truly matters is how you react after that. The moment I realised I forgot my laptop, a thousand thoughts rushed into my mind. But instead of panicking too much, I told my family, and they all immediately started thinking of ways to get it back.
This made me realise how important family members are when you are surrounded by problems. My brother started calling the airport security staff and terminal manager without wasting any time.
After that, we got the number of lost and found of that particular airport, and I started contacting them again and again until someone picked up. When the person finally picked up, I shared all the details like my flight number, seat number, and laptop description.
Within the next 3 hours, I got a call from him, and he shared an image of my laptop. I verified the details, and they kept it safe with them until I went and got it back yesterday.
Looking back, this incident taught me one thing: the solution to the problem which comes in your life is always near around you; you just have to look for it.
Maybe by yourself, maybe with the help of your loved ones. After that, you can clear the problem efficiently without any worries.
And even if you do make a mistake, it doesn’t mean you lose hope or blame yourself forever. Because after all, we are human - and it’s okay to be imperfect sometimes.