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04 Apr 2013, 7:04 pm

MannyBoo wrote:
I have always had excellent to superb navigational skills since I was a small child.

My first obsession was geography and cartography; I loved memorizing maps.

I enjoyed looking at various kinds of maps, political, topographical, etc.

When my dad drove the car, I would have the map, and guide him.

I was known by my family as "The Little Navigator" as a child.

Now, I still have these skills intact, and I never get lost.

Not even if I am in a new area I never visited before.

I love imagining myself moving through the map.


This post was awesome. I'm sorry, that just has to be said.
Just the way it flows on the right side, it just seems right.
Anyway, I'm good at navigation and enjoy it as well.



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04 Apr 2013, 9:31 pm

Wow, I'm really impressed with all of you Navigation Masters!

You all remind me of my son (who will be 5yo in June) who I noticed as early as age 3 has superb navigational skills, leaving me in the dust.

I was in my 20s before I could figure out Left and Right without thinking hard about it. I often walk out of a store and forget which way I have to return. Heaven help me if I have to try to remember where I parked my car at a strange parking lot. I love walking, but I hate walking when I'm lost. Long ago, maybe when I was about 5 or 6 years old, I got lost in a department store because I got preoccupied by looking at something in a display counter, and I remember my aunt coming to retrieve me after hearing me crying out for help. Not five minutes later I panicked again because they seemingly disappeared again, so I started whirling around and around in the same spot looking for them. I was about to start crying when I finally realized they had been standing less than 10 feet away staring right at me the whole time while giggling at the spectacle, waiting to see how long it would take for me to see them. To this day I still think they should have said something instead of letting me panic like that. Nonetheless I'm glad my head is screwed onto my shoulders otherwise I might have lost that a long time ago too.



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04 Apr 2013, 9:41 pm

finger wrote:
MannyBoo wrote:
I have always had excellent to superb navigational skills since I was a small child.

My first obsession was geography and cartography; I loved memorizing maps.

I enjoyed looking at various kinds of maps, political, topographical, etc.

When my dad drove the car, I would have the map, and guide him.

I was known by my family as "The Little Navigator" as a child.

Now, I still have these skills intact, and I never get lost.

Not even if I am in a new area I never visited before.

I love imagining myself moving through the map.


This post was awesome. I'm sorry, that just has to be said.
Just the way it flows on the right side, it just seems right.
Anyway, I'm good at navigation and enjoy it as well.


:D Thanks! I just like making the right side of my paragraphs in-line or even.

Sometimes I try to make it 90 degrees, 60 degrees, or even 45 degrees.

I just like the feel of straight line flows; even lines that angle or curve.

I also try not to rely on that automatic aligner function in MS Word.

I guess I am striving to be my own paragraph auto-align function.

Perhaps this has some kind of connection to navigational skills?