So I'm walking around the main square of Prizren, Kosovo with my family. It's a massively hot day, the sun is belting down on us, and the kids are a handful.

There are mountain-fed fountains around the town with drinkable water, so my daughter asks me if she can fill her waterbottle.

She's 8, and we are in a safe place, so I tell her, "Yes, go for it." I said it in passing, so quickly that I almost don't remember it.

Without really realizing it, we just walked a few meters off to the left to take pictures, and my 3-year-old boy was climbing over a statue and being a handful.

I'm not sure how much time passed before we went to move on, but we realized my daughter was not there.

Remember that we are a family of 7, plus the guide, so there are lots of us to watch the kids.

You kinda always assume someone has an eye out.

My Wife thinks I am watching her, I think my Mom is watching her, and my Mom thinks my Wife is watching her. In reality, no one is watching her.

Complacency.

So, by the time we realize no one is watching her, she's gone, and we are at an intersection with a thousand people and five roads going in different directions.

I'm carrying my 3-year-old, who is yelling for his sister, and we are running up and down the streets in the boiling heat together.

We go maybe a hundred meters up each street and come back to see if anyone found her.

Nothing...

Crap.

I am getting freaked now; I start imagining horrible things and am panicking. It's been at least 20 minutes and we can't find her; we are in a random town in Kosovo, it's our first day here, we don't know the language and my kid is gone.

I drop my son off at the main statue with my mother, who watches him and the baby. The rest of us split up and start searching everywhere; I am sprinting now and calling out for her.

As I run past, you can see the concerned look reflected on strangers' faces.

Other parents know something is wrong.

Finally, I looked back from the top of a hill, and I could see that someone had found her, and they were waving for me to come back.

When I get back, my daughter is there, safe but very shaken up. She's crying and terrified. I am not even mad; I am just grateful she is okay.

I'm down on both knees, and she has her arms wrapped around my neck, and she's balling.

I guess after she filled up her waterbottle, she saw someone wearing the same yellow-coloured shirt I was wearing and followed them, thinking it was me. We were just a few meters away from where she was, but she went in a random direction, following someone else.

Super scary.

I have been thinking about this experience nonstop since it happened yesterday.

I should have been paying better attention, especially in a new city. In travelling to around 30 countries with my daughter, nothing like this has ever happened before.

My daughter and I have decided to create a set of rules, things you should do if you get lost, mainly just stopping and asking someone for help, not going in the wrong direction and getting yourself more lost.

I see this with people in my work all the time...

They try to do something and get themselves into a bad situation, instead of stopping, looking around, asking for help, they keep going down the wrong path.

One bad decision leads to another, then another, it's scary.

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Speak soon,

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