The article I chose is How good is you direction? In fact, My sense of direction is not good and not bad. I used to live in a small village when I was a kid. There was no smart phone and road indicator at that time, so the way I tried to find the way back home was remembering the landmark on my way home. For instance, my parents told me that there was a school in front of our village’s entrance. I tried to connect that school with my home, so when I saw that school, I knew I was close to my home. Remembering the landmark assists me cultivate some direction sense in some way. This method helps me do not get lost in most of time.
However, with the development of smart phone, our life become more convenient than before. I become rely on the smart phone map. This is easy a than remembering somewhere that helps me find the way. What I need to do is typing the name of the street on the phone, and the smart phone will tell you the direction. I can find my destination if I follow the instruction. In the other side, this convenient life style also weaken my sense of direction because it makes me do not want to remember the landmark on the street.
In my opinion, having a good sense of direction is still necessary for us. Even though the smart phone will tell us where the place is, but what if the phone is no battery or there is no signal in that area? This kind of situation is hard to predict, so it is still important for us to remember the landmark and cultivate some direction sense.
I agree with you. Since i live next to a subway station, i utilize it as an indication. Having good knowledge of your area is really convient.
Hello,
I agree that having a good sense of directions is still necessary. We shouldn’t always rely on our phones for directions because like you said, the phone could die or have no service.
I do the same thing with recognizing a landmark and using it. While I do use the map on my phone sometimes, after one trip there and back with map I usually remember the path.