Amayzine

Great lack of sense of direction

Lynn laughing in a dotted dress

In my body, there is a lack of sense of direction. I sporadically drive the same route back and forth. Actually never. Google Maps is my primary necessity. And even with the commanding voice of Janine (I just gave her a name), I still have to ask for directions sometimes. Dramatic. Even though I sometimes feel like Remi while wandering, and I know I'm not the only one. These are the eight things you think when you always feel lost:

  1. ‘Turn west.’ Janine, the west? As if I have a compass with me. So what I do: I walk in all directions. Then you have the real-life version of a headless chicken, until Maps takes me by the hand again.
  2. Ooooh, are we here?
  3. Standardly turn left when you walk out of a store and then stare blankly for 30 seconds like some kind of Alice in Wonderland. Total disorientation.
  4.  You never ask one passerby for directions just once. No, usually it's three. For the way there.
  5. Hotels are also the place to get lost, especially when there are multiple elevators on several floors. Forever lost.
  6. That at a birthday party, or anywhere else, it’s about a route that you ‘surprise, surprise’ don’t know. Such a conversation goes like this: ‘Do you know the ring road?’ You say yes and shake your head no. ‘Well, there and then at the intersection turn left, after three traffic lights take the side road. Roundabout straight ahead, left, left and you’re there.’ Joe.
  7. The first two months at a new workplace, the route back and forth is mapped.
  8. Panic attacks in the car. That you are completely lost on a road where you should be driving 80. And Janine recalculating the route...

I think I should just take a course. Who’s joining me?