Mammy's Tips for Finding what your Looking For!

Today I parked my car on the 4th floor of a multi story car park. When I got back, I paid the fee, got in the lift and pressed 4. The lift went up, the doors opened, I got out.

But the car was not where I had left it. I was sure I had parked it on the right, about half way up, but it wasn't there.

Thinking I must be losing it, I walked around to the other side of the car park - and it still wasn't there!

So I walked up and down the rows of cars, wondering if I should call the police and why anybody would want to steal a 1998 Vectra when there were much nicer cars around.

And then I noticed something quite significant - I was on Level 2, not 4.

I could have spent the rest of my life looking for the car on Level 2 but would never have found it - because it wasn't there!

I could have hired the best forensic team in the world to look for clues but they wouldn't havefound any - because it wasn't there!

I could have called out the national guard and the army and anybody else who cared to tag along to search for it but they'd never find it - because it wasn't there!

What struck me about this experience was that many of us spend years looking for something that's missing from our lives without ever questioning whether or not we're looking in the right place.

It may seem blindingly obvious, but no matter how hard and diligently and thoroughly and passionately you search, if what you are searching for is not where you are searching, you are never going to find it.

The moral - if there must be a moral - of this story is, if you feel that there is something missing in your life, take a minute to be sure that you're trying to find it in the right place.

Happy hunting!

Mammy x x