As a keen walker and fan of all those survival-type programmes, one of the things they talk a lot about is what to do when you are lost.  One of the hardest thing in the world to do is realising that continuing to go forwards may not be a good idea.  We all like to feel that we are ‘doing something’ and accepting that what we are doing isn’t working is a really tough first step.  Sometimes just sitting down where you are and waiting can be the very best thing you can do.  If you have to do something, then the next best strategy is to retrace your steps to the last place where you know you weren’t lost.  With a aid of GPS this is much easier of course!

The thing is that when you are walking or travelling this kind of thing is pretty factual, but in the so called ‘real life’ it is much tougher to realise that we have lost the plot and far tougher to stop.  It takes real courage and fortitude to wait till the fog clears and your next step is clear, or ask for help.

My question to you is:-

• How do you know you are lost?
• What do you do when that happens?

Lost is a pretty powerless place and very much at variance to tone of our ‘go-getter-plan-and-focus’ world, I suspect many people would it tough to admit it… even to themselves.  What about you?

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”   Henry David Thoreau

 

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