The “control-F” function on a computer allows you to search for keywords in an article, website, or document without having to read the whole thing, and that can be pretty handy when the PDF is a billion pages long. Ever since I discovered that shortcut, it’s become so much easier to navigate confusing and lengthy sites, but now, when I lose things like my Airpods or a pencil in real life, I wish I could simply control-F my life. You can imagine the frustration I feel when my unorganized self is unable to find my lost items with the click of two keys. Here are all the times I wished I could control-F my life.

1. Airpods: This is first on the list as I lose these pretty frequently. You’d think they would be nicely tucked away in the case, but for me, there’s always an Airpod in one ear and another somewhere in a textbook or on the floor. Buying my Airpods was an important purchase for me, so the wave of panic is always quite a traumatic experience. I find myself looking down at my computer keyboard, wishing I could press the magic buttons and have my Airpods appear out of thin air.

2. Important papers: As someone who experiences an unhealthy amount of stress over school every day, losing important papers for an assignment or a project is a source of anxiety that I certainly do not need. I frantically flip through random pages and rummage through my backpack, desperately hoping to find the paper that I need. By the end of the process, my room looks like I ripped out all the pages of the AP Biology textbook and scattered them on the floor of my room. In a perfect world, I could control-F my missing paper and have it glow a bright yellow color, thereby saving me moments of sheer panic and dangerously fast heart rates.

3. Text messages: Sure, you can search keywords in your phone to find a text, but let’s be honest, that function on iPhones and Androids isn’t nearly as helpful as it should be. When trying to dig up some steaming hot tea to share with your friends or look back on a meaningful and memorable conversation, scrolling up on a few hundred messages is not the ideal situation. In these cases, I truly wish I could control-F on my phone some keywords of the conversation to find the exact part of it in the message thread.

These struggles of mine are truly the epitome of first-world problems. Still, as much as I hate to admit it, the frustration I get from being unable to locate something I lost definitely makes me want to control-F my life. Perhaps the solution is to become a more organized person, but that’s honestly even more unlikely than the possibility of being able to control-F reality.