{"id":97097,"date":"2018-04-24T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=97097\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:21:48","slug":"find-true-north-throw-away-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/it\/journal\/find-true-north-throw-away-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your True North? Throw Away Your Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interested in throwing away your compass? Join us at a Wanderlust Festival<\/a> this year!<\/em><\/p>\n

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On the final day of Wanderlust I was asked how I found my “true north.” I’d gotten used to seeing the words \u201cFind Your True North\u201d throughout the festival. They were draped across the musical stage in block letters and hashtagged beneath all things #Wanderlust. Yet, by the time this question reached me, the phrase had become much more meaningful than a company tagline.<\/p>\n

As I saw it, the idea of finding your true north\u2014at least at an event\u2014has to do with what you hoped to gain from the experience of being there.\u00a0One of the many elements that make a Wanderlust Festival unique is that everyone arrives with this hope alive and well,\u00a0in search of some form of growth<\/a>. I could see it in their eyes, the overwhelming sense purpose and presence. I was initially intimidated by the certainty of purpose with which others answered this question.\u00a0 Everyone seemed so clear on what they wanted; so clear on what they needed. They moved with an angelic grace hellbent on self-actualization and it stirred me with inspiration and envy.<\/p>\n

My feelings would change by the end of the festival as I discovered, standing proud at my own Ursa Minor, that my answer to finding true north is simple: Throw away your compass.<\/em><\/p>\n