How to get lost

December 19 2011, 7:50 PM  by Bernie Michalik
There are a number of ways to get lost.

You can not know where to go. This is the easiest way: you can blunder
forth until you no longer recognize where you are.

Perhaps you do know where to go, but you don't know how to get there. This
too will get you lost, but you will know you are lost sooner than before.

Or perhaps you think you know how you get there, but you are wrong. This
can be very frustrating, though you are lost all the same.

Another possibility is that you know where you are going and you know how
to get there, but when you get there, it is no longer the same. You are
bewildered, because you know where you should be, but you are not there.

Lastly, you may know where you are going, you get there, and you no longer
recognize the place, though it has not changed. This is deflating, and you
sit there, despondent, not sure of where to go or what to do next.

There are plenty of ways to get lost. You can be as lost in the dark depths
of a far away forest just as easily as a crowd of strangers in the middle
of a teeming metropolis. It is not where you are that makes you lost: it is
who you are.
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  • Dec 21 2011, 6:00 AM
    Joanne MacDonald liked this post.
  • Dec 21 2011, 6:07 AM
    Joanne MacDonald responded:
    And, don't forget the "good" kind of getting lost!
    ...Getting lost in the music. Getting lost in the moment. : )
    As I was reading your post, I thought of 3, "getting lost" songs:
    Diana Ross- "Do You Know Where You're going To?"
    U2- Stuck in a Moment
    and, my personal favorite, Chet Baker- Let's Get Lost
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ZBaZoBCaA

    Of course, if you DON'T like my response....
    You can always tell me to "Get lost!" lol! ; D
    Cheers

  • Dec 23 2011, 8:58 AM
    Bernie Michalik responded:
    Those are good ways of getting lost! Being lost isn't always terrible, as you have shown!