Perhaps you use the term “lost” when referring to one who has crossed the veil. “I lost my loved one.” They remain lost only until you come to understand the nature of consciousness and reality, which is made up of energy and information unfolding in experiences that flow like water. Your story is an experience within consciousness, as is that of your loved one, and it is a never-ending flow. Perhaps without the presence of their physical body, awareness is lost of their ongoing presence as sentient, creative, and clever patterns of consciousness, but what appears lost can most certainly be found with an open mind and the commitment to continue the search for understanding.
You are so very loved.
Finding that, which YOU lost, through the doors of YOUR mind when it is open, makes me wonder how it got into that open mind while wandering and perhaps wondering if YOU were lost. Ask YOUR Self:, What is it that we are doing when wandering with our open minds while experiencing the freedom to wander in a space that is open to all we all are? What were YOU doing THERE. Is it not a blessing that you felt you lost something or that someone that made you go on a search to a place only vaguely familiar? Is the vaguely familiar not becoming vaguely more familiar during each time you walk into YOUR open mind to sense the tastes of joy YOU knew YOU would experience THERE? That is YOUR freedom, YOUR choice to enter or shut out of YOUR precious life. Either way, your life remains precious to all those through the open-ings