I nearly lost my phone recently. Thanks to the staff at the restaurant where I left it, I got it back within 30 minutes.
Alls well that ends well and all that.
The incident got me thinking about the counterfactual. What if that hadn’t happened?
We were traveling during that time. It would have been a painful few days without the phone. And it would have been an expensive mistake too.
By all accounts, it was a near-miss. A near-miss that helped me improve my processes (I’m more careful and will be for the foreseeable future) and that has made me more grateful for the fact that it was a near-miss and not a miss.
My biggest takeaway -> near-misses don’t get enough credit.
And make the most of them when they happen, we should.
