LOST

I was driving for the first time to college earlier today. Started my journey at 10.30am - with earphones plugged in and a full tank of gas, I was ready to do it right on the first time round!

I managed to get into the Damansara area with relative ease, when I missed a turning. The lane I was supposed to be on was on the far right. I was on the far left. With only a few meters before the right lane broke off to its own and cars zooming past me at eighty kilometers an hour, I thought that it was not a good idea to try and take the risk.

Relax, it is not the end of the world. I'll find my way back here and take the right turning.

Then I realized the roads were getting smaller.
I made a U-turn, the roads got bigger again and civilization came into view.
Then I realized I did not recognize the names on the signboards.
Made more U-turns until the word 'Damansara' appeared on a signboard.
Then abruptly, the signboards just stopped appearing.

Before I knew it, I was turning into Sunway City, going right past Mentari Court and onwards to Sunway Pyramid!

At my wits' end and on the verge of tears and a panic attack, I made a sharp turn into a row of shops and stopped the car; pulled out my phone, dialed my dad up and screamed into the phone as soon as he picked up.

"I'M LOST!"

Some half an hour later, he finally came to my rescue as I waited in Esso station just down the road of Sunway Pyramid.

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You'll realize how life is like being on the road - at first you are so sure that you know how to get where you need to be. You get it all right right up until the final lap, and suddenly you realize that you have been accelerating a bit too much that you have missed the turn you have been aiming for.

But no matter, we can always try again, right?

Sure you can - if you knew how to get back. But armed only with very limited intellect (such as mine), you will realize that you are rapidly missing more turns and becoming increasingly hopelessly lost. Until you end up in the completely wrong place at a totally wrong times.

Be wise - stop and take a breather, grab a phone and dial up someone who knows better than you do, and scream into their ear the short, simple, brutal reality of the situation.

Or get a GPS.