What it means to be lost (briefly)

Solnit opens with a kind of provocation: that being lost requires a self confident enough to know it is lost. She means this positively. To be truly lost you have to have surrendered the map without surrendering the self. The hike last month where I followed the wrong ridge — I wasn't frightened, which surprised me. I was just somewhere I hadn't planned to be, which is just a description of most of life. mai pen rai. You find the path back or you find a different one.