when you're lost in the woods

"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. 

For the longest times, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, 

that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. 

Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that

 you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

I took on my depression like it was the fight of my life, which, of course, it was. 

I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes."

- 『Eat, Pray, Love』, p63