Here's another one of those imponderables.
I regularly wear a variety of wrist malas and bracelets, including copper, magnets, frequency harmonizers, etc. Mostly, I wear malas I created using various semi-precious stones, like amethyst, fluorite, quartz, tourmaline, citrine, amber, shungite, hematite, etc. Most of them have 27 beads, which is 1/4 the sacred number 108 that full malas have, and is a sacred number in its own right.
On my last trip to India I purchased several rudraksha malas, including a necklace and wrist mala, each selected based on my birth sign, personality, and energy field. In India, this is considered a science, and the variety and shape of the rudraksha seed determines its cost and best use. For some background:
https://omshivoham.com/pages/rudraksha-beads-mala
Unlike most of the malas I make, which use an elastic string, so there's no clasp to deal with, but it just slides over my hand and stays tight on the wrist (the only calamity is when the string breaks and the beads spill all over the place), this wrist mala had a fixed-length string, so it had a snap-ring clasp. When I got home, I switched it out with a magnetic clasp, which makes it very easy to put on, as I just drape it over the wrist and the two halves jump together. Although this makes it easy to put on, it is the least secure clasp, in that any hard pull on it, or getting it caught on something or even a sleeve, can unclasp it. Wearing it around the house, therefore, isn't much of a problem, as if it falls off, I notice it right away.
Whereby comes my tale. Over a month ago, I was wearing this mala and went shopping. When I got back and unloaded the groceries, I noticed the mala was missing. I retraced my steps around the house, searched the car, both the back where the groceries were, and the driver's seat in case is got pulled off while I was there. The only place I didn't/couldn't search was everywhere I was while shopping, from the stores to the parking lots. After a while I simply gave up looking and accepted the fact that this special mala was lost forever.
Today, as I went out to walk Rusty, I noticed something on the lawn, about a foot in from the sidewalk, and about 10 feet from the door, that looked out of place. I bent over to take a closer look, and lo and behold, IT WAS THE MISSING MALA!
Now, here's the imponderable. I have passed over that precise spot at least twice each day walking Rusty to the loquat tree. I put my trash and recycling carts on this exact spot every week so I can put the stuff from in the house in them. Every week the lawn people mow over that spot. We've had several torrential rains that have flooded that spot since I lost it. It is exactly in the spot next to the rear of the car where it would have come off if it came off while I was unloading the groceries, a spot I searched at the start. I never saw it until today, and it was quite visible today, yet why not earlier?
A similar thing happened a few years ago. The Ellenville Sun Ray quartz crystal I wore constantly around my neck fell off at some point and all my searching was fruitless. ONE YEAR LATER I happened to be cleaning an indented area under my guest room bathroom sink vanity, an area I had cleaned numerous times before, and I FOUND the crystal just lying there. Was it there all the time? Did it vanish and then rematerialize? Same question about the mala. Was it there all the time? Did it vanish and reappear, or get moved during the mowing or rain?
Well, at least I have it back. The universe works in strange ways!