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Get Lost by Matthew Breazeale

When was the last time you got lost? Lost while traveling through town? Lost in a store? Lost in a book? Lost in an activity? When was the last time you allowed yourself to get lost?

My parents used to make fun of me as a college student and afterward when I visited them at the beach. Since I was coming from a different starting point, I was responsible for finding my own way to the beach. This was before the current availability and accuracy of GPS devices, and, for some reason, I could never seem to get to the beach by using the same way twice. Inevitably, I would miss a turn somewhere and then just find my way – I knew that as long as I stayed heading south and east, I would eventually hit the coast; from that point it was just a matter of deciding whether I needed to go north or south to get to where my parents were. I was able to see some unique sites on the backroads I ended up traveling, going through towns that barely made a map, seeing fields in various stages of growth, finding beautiful buildings or scenes unexpectedly. 

When was the last time you allowed yourself to get lost?

Perhaps I was directionally challenged because when I was growing up, if we were in the car for more than 10 minutes, I was lost – lost in a book. When I first started to drive around town as a 15-year-old beginning driver, I had no idea where to go – road names had no meaning to me. I had spent my childhood reading every moment that I was sitting still. I went from a 14-year-old child lost in a book to a 15-year-old driver lost in a moderately-sized town.

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