Have you ever set out to get lost? and did you accomplish it?

No, but since my divorce I have felt rather lost.
However instead of fighting it I’ve embraced it, and I rather like it!
It’s has been rather wonderful to… just Be!

I have tried it in several ways by jumping in my car on taking off for who knows where and also emotionally, going with my heart and not my head. In the end, I always return back into myself.

i have 3 times in the last year taken off to “get lost”. not in the sense of abandoning those who depend upon or love, care about me. but in the sense that i needed some “own” time.

May of last year i embarked on a solo road trip of about 5000 miles. all along the way, my family and friends knew about my whereabouts, but i was free to go, do, see what ever i wanted.

at one point i realized that not once in my entire lifetime had i ever spent so much time on my own and had the degree of liberty to do as i pleased. and i experienced not only a sublime sense of freedom, but also a contradictory amount of responsibilty in how i utilized that freedom.

i repeated that trip in september of last year, and then again in march this year. repeat in the sense that i had “own” time. it was great. i will do it again if i can.

where did i travel? west. colorado, utah, idaho, wyoming, south dakota. yellowstone (you owe it to yourself to experience yellowstone if you have not already), bad lands, grand tetons.

if you don’t already know what it means to say we live in God’s country, head west young at heart!

I was 8 and mad at my mommy so I “ran away”. I ended up getting lost for five hours in the middle of the woods. I was such a brilliant child.

@electricsky and have you since improved upon that early experience to enjoy something meaningful?

I don’t set out to get lost yet it happens whenever I get in my car. Don’t know why. They made the GPS, I think, just for ME!

@Mr_M so true! i gave my son-in-law a gps for xmas. after, he set it to get from his house to mine. and, even though he knows how to get from his house to mine, he followed it’s directions until he didnt know where the hell he was! he complained bitterly about the gps, but as he knows where i live, it was really his bad!

But that’s what’s so beautiful about a GPS. If you follow its directions wrong, it re-calculates the route from wherever you are. True, it may take you a ridiculous way, but it gets me there.

actually, i should clarify. there is an address identical to mine in the same zip code. town names are even very similar, one ends in “heights” the other doesn’t. his gps took him to the alternate address, not mine. my point was that he knows where my address is located, but followed his gps right off the edge of the cliff!

Funny you should say that. TWICE, by 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE, people made a right turn onto train tracks in Westchester. It was on the news.

Because of that many GPS units now call out street names. Mine (an older model) just says “Make the next right” instead of “Make the next right on Spring Street”. On this particular corner there was a right onto a road and a right onto tracks.

Sometimes when I need to think, I just drive to get lost if I’m at home. If I’m at school, I’ll walk about in NYC to get lost. It’s a little bit harder here in the grid because the numbers tell you everything, but it’s still good to go somewhere I’ve never been. At home, I’ve definitely managed to get lost, but if I need to get back, all I need to do is find a highway, so I guess there is an element of not really getting lost/having the security of being able to find my way no matter what.

Also, @avalmez: Yellowstone is absolutely amazing!

when i was a little kid i used to get lost with my cousin for fun