I am trying to prepare myself for the future theft of my bike by a) having enough money in the bank to replace it should anything happen to it and b) imagine that scenario, the shock of it missing and the life going on afterwards. Plus the fun of buying a new bike.

I just read "The Antidote" which is about the power of negative thinking and it recommends we spend some time every day contemplating future loss. It sounds depressing but it helps us appreciate what we have now and it prepares us for the eventuality if we do lose it one day. The author was talking about death of loved ones, but I thought I'd start out small with something like loss of my bike!

I'm so silly--more than once I've biked down the street to the other building on our campus, then as I was coming back I automatically looked at the bike rack where my bike lives when I'm in the office, and for a moment I'm like "Where the heck is my bike?? Oh, I'm sitting on it." I do that with my phone too. I'm talking on it, and I reach in my pocket so I can look at it to see what time it is, and think I've lost my phone for a moment.

Then there have been moments when I thought I left my bike in one place, and it's not there, and either I left it in a different place or didn't realize it's behind something. Then I really do have a rush of adrenaline.