I'm Not Lost

[cedar_grove]

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

I'm only lost if I'm going someplace
in particular.
--Megan Scribner

When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost.

One of the things I'm starting to realise while I'm driving around here, when I'm all anxious and tense because I don't know 'the way' to somewhere or another is that... sooner or later I am going to hit a road I knew. Whether that road is I40, or 15/501 or even 54, sooner or later I'm going to find somewhere.

Of course that doesn't help if I'm supposed to be picking Mir up, or getting to a particular place at a particular time, but... it does make things slightly easier, and if I'm by myself in the car, who's to know that I got 'lost' in the first place. I could just have decided to take the scenic route.

I still want to go on a walk in downtown Carrboro some time soon. It doesn't have to be a long walk – and other than getting there, whether by bus or car, I don't really want to have 'plans' to be some place specific. I just want to wander around and see what there is to see. Can't get lost that way...

Don't know why I'm all of a sudden so worried about getting lost.

Comments

[vegawriters.livejournal.com]

Dumb question. Really dumb question. Have you moved to the States? It seems like you have but I wasn't sure.

[cedargrove.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately no... just been here almost all of the time allowed. Irene originally kept me here, when the hurricane cancelled my flights, and then a monumental fail on the part of Delta extended that even more.