
I discovered a new game recently. Well, I think a lot of the internet discovered it recently. It's this website called Geoguessr. Geoguessr is a game in which you must "find yourself" on a map based only on what you find around you in Google Street View. There are five rounds, and in each round, you start at a random location anywhere in the Google-able world. Based on what you see, you guess on a map where you started. The closer your answer is to the exact location, the more points you get.
But it's tricky. If the signs are in Spanish, that narrows it down to about twenty or so countries. If the cars are driving on the left side of the road, you may be in England, but you might also be in Hong Kong. The Cyrillic alphabet may suggest Russia, but you might be somewhere else in Europe. If you see the Parthenon, don't immediately assume you're in Greece; there's a replica of it in Nashville, Tennessee.
In the couple of days since I started playing the game, I've asked on several occasions, "God, where the heck am I?" It's a familiar question, actually -- one I feel like I've been asking a lot lately. We all are on some sort of road in this life. Sometimes we get to a place where we suddenly realize we either don't know how we got there or don't know where to go next.
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