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I don't know if this will help, but on the rare occasions that I lose something, I try and amortize the cost of the pen.knife, girl friend whatever over a period of time. So if I lose a $200 knife, I'll allow myself 15 minutes of "OMG I lost a $200 knife & they don't make those & what am I gonna do & bla bla bla". I then try to adopt a more healthy perspective. If I'd had the knife for a year, then I'd rented the knife for 55 cents a day ($200/365). Did I enjoy it 55 cents worth on any given day? Probably and if not, it was a bad rental, so I'll rent another better one. As Werner Erhard said "I'm not into long term suffering. I like my suffering to be short term".