It's really easy to get lost

That’s it. It’s really easy to get lost among so much noise, among so many people.

(If you lose focus) little by little you start drifting away, like when you step into a river and the current takes you and you can’t find your footing.

Or when you wake up from a nap without knowing what day it is or where you are.

It’s also similar to those moments in the candy era (aka childhood), when you ran without looking back to escape from a cousin or a friend, until you stopped, turned around, and didn’t see any familiar faces.

Getting lost is losing yourself. Obviously, no one gets lost on purpose, because getting lost mentally is not like getting lost physically.

When you get physically lost, you realize it right away: you’re walking, you look up, and you don’t know where you are. That might take you at most 5 minutes if you were really engrossed in your phone.

Mentally getting lost is more complicated because, looking at the ‘whole picture,’ it’s much harder to spot something that tells you, “No, man, you’re tripping, where the heck are we?”

That’s why it’s so easy to get lost. Because the change is sooo gradual, and because when you realize you’re out of it, the situation has already slipped quite a bit out of your hands.

Getting lost leads to finding new things, yes. But it also leads to losing time and all that stress of not recognizing yourself.

Can you grow without losing yourself?

I think the fact that we find ourselves lost means we know where to go. Or at least that we’re not where we want to be.