“If you are attached to nothing then you can lose nothing”
Lao-Tzu

Very true. However, in my experience, once lost, it is always better to lose something completely, for it to be ever absent from your life than to have some vestigial remains silently lurking and ever eager to retwist the dagger.

Take, for example, the loss of one Blahnik. So much better to lose the pair than to leave the other in your closet (as one could never throw it away) as a monument to the halcyon days when life was beautiful. So holds the same true with diamond earrings and exotic lovers. However, since the single earring has a decent resale value, never make the melodramatic mistake of ever flinging back anything you can pawn.

If you want to be melodramatic, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, the answer is simple: Cry a single tear, down a moonlit left cheekbone – never brush this away yourself. You will always sleep peacefully in the knowledge that it would have fucking rocked in a black and white movie. And that is all that matters. Believe me.