When an object is lost, 95% of the time it is hiding within arm’s reach of where it was last seen. Search in all possible locations in that radius and you’ll find it.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"I am not a political writer. I am a writer who writes about politics."
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.