I feel like I can’t get lost. I’ve tried.
Sometimes I will just drive in random directions, just to see what I see. But when it comes time to go home, somehow we always seem to hit the right highway just when it is needed.
I think lost is a feeling. It has to do with how much you believe you know about the geography. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been looking for a little dirt road that goes for miles through the woods and ends up at such and such a town. The road isn’t even on any map, and bam! I go straight where I want to go.
I think that people who have no conception of geography can get lost even when they are on the right road. They feel lost. They lack confidence. They can’t picture where they might be. Because of that, they are lost.
I always feel like I know where I am. Maybe if I were in China and I couldn’t read the signs or talk to the people, I could be lost. But not here. I just feel like I know where I am. I have confidence about that, and thus, I would never define myself as lost, even if I took a wrong turn. I’d know I’d taken the wrong turn, and I’d feel I could figure out what to do to fix it. So how could I be lost?