If you get lost in the forest, why can’t you make a 180 degree turn and walk back?
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If you’d been walking in a straight line you wouldn’t be lost, but when you’re in a forest you’re constantly adjusting your path and steps to avoid obstacles. These adjustments add up to you deviating very far from simply walking a straight line. By the time you realize you’re lost you haven’t been walking in a straight line for quite some time. In fact, you may have turned around 180 degrees to try and walk back already, but by then you’ve deviated just enough that “walking back” just leads you in an opposite but equally lost direction.
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