Emma had always been by Tom’s side. Through each failed relationship and every heartache, she comforted and encouraged him to keep searching for "the one” who would bring true love to his life. Tom believed he would find someone "perfect."

One evening, after his latest heartbreak, Tom sat alone in his apartment, feeling emptier than ever. He had given up on the idea of finding real love. He had looked everywhere and failed. With tears in his eyes, he saw a small envelope in the flowers Emma had given him on his last birthday. He saw her handwriting and smiled. Love had always been there.

He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: you never looked closely enough.

She escaped her boring life by doing activities in the afternoons: learning languages and going to swimming lessons.
“It’s hard to find friends in such a big city,” she always complained.

She started a master’s degree that changed her life. For the first time in years, she felt the rush of blood and adrenaline that came with being a hacker, meeting people like her. But she had to stop.

Her illness had come back, stronger than ever. She could barely get out of bed. She thought she had lost everything, but then she found a note: “You never looked closely enough” – by drkrysSrng

James found himself rooted to the spot, surrounded by desolation. “Everything is gone”, his voice was barely a whisper.

Little did he know that fate had other plans. His foot struck a metallic object, and with trembling hands, he unearthed a battered box. Inside lay a map, which would lead to his mother´s missing jewels, disappeared in strange circumstances. Despite years of painstaking searches, these jewels had eluded them, only to be hidden in the garden, a mere few yards away.

He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: “You never looked closely enough”

Pen Name: R2D2

Hours passed as he searched through the ruins, and just as the sun began to set, he found a note, read it and looked closely, then he spotted it, a hidden compartment in the wall, slightly ajar. Heart racing, Nathan pried it open, revealing a trove of untouched books and a journal, the pages filled with ideas he had penned long ago.

The disaster had restored a buried hope, his forgotten passion for writing.

He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: you never looked closely enough.

Portalgate

At 37, he cursed himself for ever listening to his godfather (his grandfather, the filmmaker) who always told him: “Raulito, go after what you want. Believe in yourself.”

Raúl was exhausted from trying to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps, convinced he didn’t have what it took.

In frustration, he opened his childhood memory chest. Through tears, he tore up photos of his school plays, smashed his makeshift Oscar from college, and discarded a framed picture of himself and with his grandfather playing “Lights, Camera, Action!”

He thought he had lost everything. But then he found a note:

“You never looked closely enough.” - Written by Sunflower Seed

On the firts night, the air was filled with strange sounds. The children heard footsteps in the attic, whispers in empty rooms, and most frightening of all, they saw a shadow figure at the window.

The next day, while cleaning the attic, the father found a black trunk full of dust. A cold breath brusted his face. He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: you never looked closely enough.

No sooner had he arrived home than his attempts to open it began. But try as he might by pushing, twisting and prying, the box refused to yield. Only after many hours had passed did he finally give up, full of frustration for all his failed attempts. Setting the box aside, he decided to return it the next day. Little did he know that all the answers were right before his eyes.

Only as he was looking back at the box, now in a different light, did he notice the faint words engraved on the underside, the key to open all the box’s locks. Just as he thought he had lost everything, he then found a note: “you never looked close enough”

Antiquary

Years and experience had transformed the struggle of his youth into a meek acceptance of the immutable reality that he had been learning to recognize. They had reached that point at four in the afternoon. Five hours later his sense of responsibility gave impetus to his steps when he faced the door of the operating room.

He met the eyes of the woman who looked at him through the glass. The rest was just data. The mouth expelled them, ignoring the heart that poured out through those dark eyes so eloquent.

-  “Complications”… “delicate”… “did not resist”…

And her silence:  “why?”… “my heart”… “my life”… “and now?”…

Sitting in the car, surrounded by darkness, he asked himself the same questions. “Why? My heart, my life, and now?”

That week Anna, his wife, and he, had decided to “take a break” to see things from a distance. Do we really learn over the years? A moment, a phrase, and it had been enough for him to realize what he really wanted and that everything was still possible.

As long as there is life, there is hope. Would life ever come with instructions?

He looked into the glove compartment for the house keys. A piece of paper hid them. He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: “You never looked close enough”.

The Appretice

Curious, he kneeled to pick it up. His heart quickened when he realised that it was the last book she had given him. confusion overcame him. He felt a vertigo as he realised that somehow, she was still with him; she had never left him. Mark put the book back on the self, but the book fell again. Then, a halo of hope shone inside him. Sometimes what we don't see is the greatest act of love.

He thought he had lost evertything, but he found a note: 'You never looked close enough'.

Hope

You must flee in this boat head to no-man’s-land. I have faith in Nature, in the dawning of a new era. All you need is your will, your wise and the most precious treasure you’ll find on the way.

But she found neither map nor chest in the boat. Only when her hands discovered the hidden surprise in the coat pockets, did she understand the twist of her fate: a handful of seeds carefully wrapped with her mother’s handkerchief as the most valuable legacy she had never imagined.

She thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: “You never looked closely enough”.

Sakura

            So Fergus climbed upstairs to the family room and searched for their favourite photo album, he was also hoping to find a few little pieces: an amber rock and a figurine that came from his mother. He found the album all right, the figurine too, but the amber rock did not appear to be anywhere.

            He did not want to give up the search, but the warnings became ever more compelling, so he begged for his mother’s forgiveness and gave up on the search for the amber piece.

            The following day when they were able to go and check their home, he climbed upstairs to the family room, where everything was as it was before the flood. He started to check all the cabinets, shelves, drawers and everywhere where the stone could have been hidden when he came across a tiny drawer, he never knew existed, in the writing desk…

He thought he had lost everything, but then he found a note: ‘You never looked closely enough’.

Amber