Have you ever been lost?

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Only time I ever was lost was at Disneyland, age 5. Somehow I got separated from my family and I was crying. I think they found me, because I don't remember asking anyone for help. Oh, and one other time I was riding my bike around Aloha, Oregon and couldn't figure out how to get back to Beaverton, so I had to ask a kid.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. Once in Virginia - I loved it

I was back east on a 3-week tour of Civil War battlefields. I had just visited the Wilderness and was trying to get back to Fredericksburg when I got turned around on a country road. It was a beautiful crisp fall day, and I really didn't mind being lost, but just enjoyed it. Somehow I figured out how to get back to 95.

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2. That's the right way to be lost.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. Indeed

I'm glad your parents found you when you were little - that must have been scary, at such a big place!

[Nevernose]

4. No. I have never once, in my entire life, been lost

There have been times where I was not at my destination, and times when I was unsure of the exact geographical location of my destination, but I have NEVER been "lost."

There are merely unplanned side-trips, and something new and unexpected to discover or experience.

Even as a little kid, I knew that life wasn't about the destination -- since our ultimate destination in life is death -- but about the journey. And hell, we might as well smile when there's nothing we can do about it anyway, right?

Of course, not being able to find your kid is the absolute worst feeling in the world. Hands down, bar none.

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7. Hmmmmmm

[Nevernose]

11. OK, in more concise terminology:

Being "lost" is a state of mind. Not knowing where one is at, at the moment, on some map, is not the same thing as being "lost."

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18. Wait, start over

[Nevernose]

20. You're lost, aren't you?

Relax. Enjoy the ride. You'll get where you need to get sooner or later. Or you'll be dead, all alone in the Nevada wilderness in some horrific plane accident, wondering why you didn't bring the survival gear your Scoutmaster said to always carry with you.

Either way, it's all the same.

Of course, I used to attend a lot of Grateful Dead shows, so taking directions from me is a pretty foolish idea to begin with...

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22. But now I'm found.

A friend of mine swears the guy must have crashed into Mono Lake. He was wearing one of those wristwatch transmitter thingies that only 10 people in the world can afford. It doesn't work underwater though.

[Nevernose]

23. Those wristwatch things aren't that expensive.

You can get 'em at REI for under five hundred bucks. Too expensive for me, but not for a rich guy, surely.

Of course, I would only wear one if I were going to be in a situation in which the rest of the world doesn't know where I am. Personally, I would never buy that survival shit unless my friends and/or family might get worried, because I can survive in 6 out of 7 continents equipped with nothing but what is in my pockets right now, as I type.

Because I'm that kind of weirdo, and I've got that kind of free time. A LOT of free time, in fact. Enough free time to practice building fires in the back yard with nothing but cacti. I can turn a Joshua tree into the fires of Hell in five minutes or less, guaranteed.

Maybe I need a girlfriend...

Oh, and last I heard, they'd found no less than EIGHT downed aircraft that weren't his. EIGHT. And people actually act surprised?

[zanne]

35. Reading the "horrific plane accident" comment, I felt a warm glow

On this lovely Sunday morning while the sound of birds fills the air, I am so pround of my DU friends. I love you all. Continue.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. me too. nt.

[TK421]

5. Driving around 45 miles north of where I live now, where there was nothing

but wheat fields and old barns...and literally nothing else. I hate getting lost

[LeftyMom]

6. More this weekend than ever before in my life.

I think by law no road in this state is allowed to be at all straight. And New York is no better, I did two fucking laps around Manhattan trying to get to a tunnel.

[NMDemDist2]

9. often, geographically, emotionally and spiritually

I like get geographically lost, I look at it as an adventure, in fact in a new town I fill up the gas tank and go get lost on purpose to get a feel for the area.

spiritually lost isn't nearly as much fun, but I have achieved my greatest growth from those times.

and this great song is all about being emotionally lost and found again

Standing cold and scared on top of Blue Hill,
There came one moment when I lost my will.
I prayed for mercy, "Lord, please take me away,
Or give me sunshine where I only see grey."
The past had a hold on me, it can't be denied,
And the changes didn't come easily.

Chorus
I've been lonely, I've been cheated, I've been misunderstood;
I've been washed up, I've been put down, and told I'm no good.
But with you I belong, 'cause you helped me be strong.
There's a change in my life since you came along.

Now I don't mind working so hard every day,
And I don't pay no mind to what people say.
'Cause after all the pain I've been through,
Lord knows I'd give up everything just to love only you.
All my life I've held my head bent in shame,
But now I've found you, and with you I'll remain.
Lord knows...

(Chorus)

A man gets crazy when his world is all wrong,
And a heart gets weary when it doesn't belong.
When the road gets rocky, Lord, you've got to keep on,
Let the new light come shining on through.

(Repeat chorus and fade)

[lligrd]

10. Still Waiting To Be Found... nt

[fizzgig]

12. got lost in london once

got off the bus a few stops too early and wound up wandering around for over an hour looking for my hostel...it was only a few blocks away :blush:

did the same in ediburgh and glasgow...my sense of direction sucked when i was in europe

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. Venice, Italy.. That place is like a fucking maze.

We got lost for hours in sidewalks that would spiral into them self.. Now I understand why the guy at the train station told us to bay a map ASAP. Damn, it could take 30 minutes to find a main artery.

[FloridaJudy]

27. Oh, but Venice is such a great place to get lost!

..And sooner or later, you'll find a bridge, and can take it from there. I remember once getting lost there in one of the thick autumn fogs that drift in from the Adriatic. It was like something out of a Gothic novel, or a Fellini movie.

Now getting lost in Boston is a bear. Even if you know where you are, you can't get to where you're going because the streets all go in the wrong direction (or at least it seems so to this Californian/Floridian).

[SPKrazy]

14. got lost in Oklahoma City

after a dead concert

we were pretty out of it and i still to this day don't know how we found our way out of wherever the hell we were.

:eyes:

fools and drunks, and drunks who try acid at a dead concert

[JohnnyLib2]

15. Yes, but don't tell my wife!

I won't admit it and she can't read the dang map. LOL

:evilgrin:

[Suich]

16. When I was about 8 or 9 I got lost in the sand dunes

on the southern Oregon coast for about 3 hours I thought a bear was chasing me and my parents were frantic. I got in trouble after they found me because I wasn't supposed to wander off.

[Richard Steele]

17. Nope. Spent lots of time with no idea where I was, though. nm

[lizziegrace]

19. Cincinnati Zoo

I got separated from my parents and sisters. I looked around and they were gone. I started running as fast as I could and remember people diving for me - trying to get me to stop. I kept going. :(

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. once, in a costco when i was five

:rofl:

[MrScorpio]

24. Never

It never happens to me

[dropkickpa]

25. Geographically, not really

I have a great sense of direction (much good that it does me since I don't own a car and always take the bus). I am the directions queen, there's an invisible sign above my head that says "Directions here!!" that only lost people can see. My friends think it's hilarious, it happens EVERY time I am out. Even happened once on my first trip to NYC and, scarily enough, I actually did know what directions to give the person.

In other ways? Off and on.

[SPKrazy]

26. I plan to be very soon

:P

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. I was BORN lost

and I'm STILL trying to figure out where the hell I am.

Life's a bitch, and I'm a sonofabitch.

[bluedigger]

29. Constantly

But I spend a lot of time in places I've never been. And if you really get lost - follow the water!

[KT2000]

30. YES!

Olympic National Forest. We missed the turnoff on a rather rugged hike and ended up in the bottom of a ravine. The trees were so tall I could not see the sky except in pieces. My partner left me to find a way out and I spent the whole time talking myself out of panic.
That was the end of my hiking career.

[Skittles]

31. I am direction-impaired and frequently am lost while driving

luckly I have a good instinct on who to ask for directions

[Jamastiene]

32. Yep, every time I go to a Super Center of any type.

I get lost easily if there is a large clothing section. I cannot tell one women's clothes from the next, so I cannot find any "landmarks" to tell me where I am. If it is a place where I can find a good automotive, fishing, music, or computer section, I can work my way out. If it is a super large store with a huge clothing section, I will get lost. You can count on it. Every single time.

[QMPMom]

33. I still get teased about the time I got lost on the second floor of

IKEA here when they moved to their newest building. Took me 45 damn minutes to find my way off that second floor. The family threatens to tie a rope around me so I can find my way out when I tell them I am going to IKEA now.

30+ years ago I got lost driving in Minneapolis. I pulled over and called my Dad at his office 700 miles away. He has this amazing ability to remember driving directionsin a city and he just asked me exactly where I was. I gave him the cross streets and he gave me turn-by-turn directions on how to get where I was going.

[zanne]

36. Many years ago, I got so stoned that...

I couldn't find my way out of the ladies room in a diner. The door was painted the same color as the walls and I finally had to yell "HELP"! Luckily, my equally stoned friends were there and they came to get me. (I'll never hear the end of that one).

[Fox Mulder]

34. I'm lost right now.

[midnight armadillo]

37. Never!

I am blessed with an unerring sense of direction. I'm a good match for my wife, who can get turned around in our apartment...