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Julian wanted one afternoon that did not improve anything . His week was a chain of slots , each one measured , and even his walks had become routes with a finish line . He left the apartment with his phone in his pocket and the map unopened . If he got lost , that would be the point . He knew the old picture of this mood . In nineteenth - century Paris , the flâneur walked the city in order to look , not to arrive . A tourist , by contrast , usually carries a list : a museum , a view , a time to be back . Julian wanted the other kind of movement , the kind with no predetermined end . He had read Jean - Paul Sartre on the burden of having to choose , and an empty afternoon made that burden obvious . Nobody was going to assign the hour a purpose . For an hour the choice felt like relief . He turned where the street looked interesting . He stood on a bridge longer than any schedule would allow . A cafe window , a crane over a closed lot , two people arguing softly about a key : none of it had to be useful . Nobody was scoring the hour . Getting lost on purpose was his small argument with a life that wanted every minute optimized . Then a man with a heavy bag stopped him and asked which bus went to the station . He needed to be somewhere , and he did not know the lines . Julian checked the map after all , walked him to the stop , and waited until the number was clear . The man thanked him and did not linger . Julian stayed on the corner after the bus left . He did not know why the man needed the station . He only knew that his own afternoon had been a choice . The speech he had planned , about how getting lost gives a life its meaning , no longer fit . He put his hands in his pockets and walked on , with nowhere to be .
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