driving with my gut

today, i was running errands in a less familiar side of town and i decided to take (what i hoped) was a shortcut to get from one place to the next. i drove along just fine until i came to a fork in the road that allowed me to choose between “north” (hwy blah) and “east” (hwy blah blah) and i wanted to go northeast! ack! so, i chose the direction that my lane went (it felt sort of correct) and continued “north” but rather disorientedly. i had no idea where i was and after two exits that we definitely not where i wanted to be (i was pretty sure of that… sorta) i suddenly found myself driving on what looked like middle-of-nowhere interstate with exits that indicated interstate numbers and faraway towns instead of local streets. ah, a lovely little bit of help-i’m-lost!-adrenaline as i realized there was no easy place to turn around and chose the highway exit option that seemed to veer most closely in the direction i wanted to go. as i merged onto this new road, i soon recognized that i was entering into the left lane of a road i’d often entered from the right lane and (even better) i was heading exactly the way i wanted to go and the exit i needed was just up ahead and with plenty of room to merge over. whew! everyone should get lost in their own town every once in awhile. it keeps the neurons firing, it ups the adventure quotient of the day and you learn new ways to maneuver around your world.

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