№ 00311: My radiance & positivity – confidence, fearlessness in being vulnerable

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Lost Object Claim № 00311: Radiance

Item description:

Article or kind of material lost: my radiance & positivity – confidence, fearlessness in being vulnerable

Color: Orange-yellow like pollen :)

Size: The sun

Approx. date lost: March 19, 2024

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Here is what claimant № 00311 had to say:

Regret mixed into confusion. Lost my sense of belonging & ability to welcome warmth. Sense of hostility, frustration has overwhelmed me. I do not belong.

I want to protect others from myself. But I also want to find myself again.

Dear claimant, you might have been fearless about being vulnerable in the past, and I can understand why you would want to claim your lost capacity to radiate positivity without fear of falling — without fear of the hurt that you must feel now.

I want to be able to write something that gives you that sense of belonging, that ties you to this great interconnected web of humanity and tells you that hey, I read your Lost Object Claim and hey, I feel this too. You belong because you’re here, I’m here, and the present is not forever but it is now.

But I’m totally unaware of what prompted you to lose your radiance and positivity, pollen yellow like the sun, so I’m afraid that anything I write could be so far off the mark it would push you into feeling more alone.

So instead, allow me to submit here some pieces of art that radiate warmth and confidence. Maybe you can soak it in and draw that feeling to you.

Lady in Yellow, Max Kurzweil, 1899

Boy Playing, Candido Portinari, 1955

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field Behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper, 1889

Alma Thomas, The Eclipse, 1970