Wasting Time Looking

I waste a great deal of time looking for things that are not lost. I wrote that sentence in an individual email to someone who I thought lost something I gave them. Research revealed that the item was not lost. I acknowledged my apparent mistake by typing the sentence in question. Then I began to admire my words like I used to admire my own image in mirrors and glass windows. I think that demonstrates that I have matured to the point of no longer worshiping my physical beauty but now valuing my more important inner intellectual beauty. At any rate, my wife and I have agreed that this is our new marital motto. We both waste a great deal of time looking for things that are not lost. Our old motto used to be: Geoff made a mistake and he will try to do better in the future. We had to abandon that commandment. Not because Geoff no longer makes mistakes but because he is no longer trying to do better. He just does not have the energy. He even has difficulty extracting himself from the third person. When I told the recipient of my wonderful new sentence that I was going to write a Blog about it, she could not believe it. I took that to mean it would be a difficult feat to do something that brilliant. But my wife interpreted the comment as meaning the sentence is so pedestrian and inconsequential that anyone would look foolish bragging about it in a Blog.