How to handle being lost
VIDEO: See this informative video instructing how YOU can avoid getting lost in the woods.
We’ve all gotten lost. Most of us first have the experience as children. It may have been in the woods or a crowded department store. Wherever it occurs it is terrifying. Small children often find it so frightening they must deny it. They do not say they are lost but rather, “My mommy is lost.”
Paleolithic life may be experiencing a renaissance in dietary circles but is still perceived as a rather undesirable existence. We fancy our contemporary world of choices an obvious improvement. But what it means to be successful has gotten complicated. Whatever form it takes, many perceive it skeptically or overwhelming if not impossible. This does not make for greater happiness. I imagine the typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a better mood than your average modern human.
Camping and hiking are wonderful ways to get close to nature. Adventuring in the wilderness is uplifting and refreshing. However, there are something important things that every camper should be aware of on a camping trip in the great outdoors.
If you’re heading off into a remote area, there is always the possibility that someone, adult or child, will get lost. Prepare everyone in your party ahead of time with the do’s and don’ts of navigation in the wilderness.
So how do we find our way out of the woods?
We all have inhabited our best self, no matter how fleetingly. We know it by how it makes us feel. There is no conflict, ambivalence, sense of time. We sense we are doing the right thing. The experience flows. Athletes call it being in the zone. It feels good.
Total happiness is one of the desirable emotions, and on the basis of the human system, it is a feeling and not a state. You can only feel it but you cannot view it, except for witnessing its outer reflection. You can, should you prefer to feel it now to immediately witness its reflection in the form of facial glow, genuine smile, or a spontaneous laughter.
