I think I definitely did miss a day or two. It's not that I got lazy, it's really more that I got stuck on a LOA-related exercise and I couldn't get through it.
I'll just treat today as my Day 17, continuing from where I left off. Today I did plain meditation for some time, and then I decided to visit a memory.
Without sharing too many details, I re-created in 3D a certain place in my mind, which is quite dear to me. Then in my mind I went walking all around the place, to see all my old friends there, most of whom I've now lost touch with, for more than 10 years now.
Very nostalgic, very poignant, a couple of tears rolled out of my eyes. Silly me.
A sudden realisation that your average day is filled with so many small yet beautiful moments. This is how life happens, and if you don't really pay attention, many of them will just pass by unnoticed.
Gotta do that "presence in the moment" thing, more often.
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I ended this manifestation, with a little magickal spell. For this spell, I chose one particular friend, S, from this place that I had visited. I'm very fond of S, I somehow had always regarded her as a younger sister of mine (even though, uhh, she'd never pass as my sister, her skin colour is quite different).
The last time I met S was about 8 years ago. I heard later that she'd left my country for good, and had returned to her home country (she was a foreigner). I don't have her contact details. I can't even google her name, because I can't remember what her last name is (she is Indian, and had a very long, difficult-to-remember last name).
Anyway, I have cast a magickal spell for S to contact me. I'd like to talk to her again, see how she is doing now.
Maybe she will suddenly email me; maybe I will bump into her while I'm walking down the street; maybe I'll meet someone who actually knows where S is now. I don't know. The spell is cast, so it must happen.
For those interested in magick, the spell involves a visualisation that includes the air element (for communication) and the colour green (for emotions).