13 minutes ago, liuzhou said:I am one of those people (and they are thousands of us if not millions) who always know where north is
You are so lucky. I very seldom get lost because I'm able to retain a visual map in my mind and once I have been somewhere I never forget it. But if you ask me if I had to go north, south, east, or west to get there I couldn't tell you.
I have one friend who is so challenged that she had to give up on driving a car because she could never find her way back home again.