i do not consider myself a jewellery person. which is to say that i don't wear jewellery often -- i wear jewellery very rarely. that said, i have become attached to the rundholz (mainline) bracelet that i am wearing here (and that i have been wearing pretty much daily since i acquired it). about a week or so ago, i almost lost it. i wore it to go to a personal training session. it was just me and my trainer at the facility before, during and after the session. after the session, while getting dressed to leave the facility, my trainer and i got to talking. the talking probably distracted me from paying close attention to what i was doing as i was getting dressed. after some time, dressed and ready to go, we left the facility. she locked it up, we high-fived it, she went east and i started walking west. i probably hadn't taken more than 50 steps before i noticed that i wasn't wearing the bracelet. i stopped. dead in my tracks. the emotional me panicked. the rational me tried to calm the emotional me and reasoned that it had to be somewhere on my person. i wasn't prone to losing things. rational me directed that i look in all my pockets. i searched my pockets. no bracelet. rational me then directed that i look in my bag. emotional me now started to sense that rational me, while directing all sorts of searches, knew that the bracelet wouldn't be found on my person, that i had left it behind at the fitness place. nevertheless i searched my bag. no bracelet. emotional me went into full-on anxiety mode. rational me, now a little shaken and starting to lose its initial calm handle of the situation, went into problem-solving mode. obviously, i had left the bracelet behind at the fitness place, in the locker i had used to store my belongings. as there had been nobody there except me and my trainer, it should still be there. but how to retrieve it? i could try to chase down my trainer -- she could let me back into the facility and i could retrieve the bracelet. bad idea. i didn't know exactly where, other than east, she had gone and, by this point, probably too much time had passed for me successfully to chase her down. i could call the fitness place, leave a message for whomever would pick it up, and ask them to retrieve and hold the bracelet for me until my next visit. bad idea. i knew (just knew) that walking away would be tantamount to letting the bracelet go. i couldn't say for certain what number locker i had used. the message might not be picked up before someone went into that locker. and what would be the likelihood that someone wouldn't just take it (as much as i don't want to assume the worst in people). no, i couldn't do something that would increase the likelihood of my never being reunited with the bracelet. option three: i could return to the fitness place and wait for someone to show up, unlock it and let me in to go retrieve the bracelet. i knew that there would be classes there in an hour's time, so the most i would have to wait would be an hour. one hour of my time: a small price to pay to retrieve the bracelet. i went with option three. i returned to the facility and prepared myself to wait. then luck shone down upon me. no sooner did i return to the facility did someone arrive and unlock it. i followed the person in, explained my dilemma to him and, moments later, was reunited with my bracelet. in my life to date, this bracelet is only the second piece of jewellery to which i have developed an attachment. the first piece was a ring. i lost that ring. i left it behind in the bathroom of another fitness place many years ago. i got over that loss (or, maybe not, if i still remember, quite vividly, the how and where of that loss.) i am so grateful that i did not lose this bracelet.
i am wearing rundholz mainline s/s 2018 (bracelet), rundholz mainline a/w 2017 (boots) and rundholz black label a/w 2017 (top, dress, cardi and trousers).
