Bishe is a pearl in the western Sahara Desert,困境即赐予，and every year tens of thousands of tourists come here. But before Ken Levin discovered it, this was still a closed and backward place. None of the people here have walked out of the desert. It's said that it's not because they don't want to leave this barren land, but because they have tried many times without success.
Of course, Ken Levin did not believe this claim. He asked the locals for the reason using sign language, and everyone gave the same answer: no matter which direction you go from here, you will eventually return to the starting point. To verify this statement, he conducted an experiment, walking north from Bishe village, and indeed managed to walk out in just three and a half days.
Why couldn't the Bishe people walk out? Ken Levin was very puzzled, and finally decided to hire a local Bishe person to guide him and see why. They brought enough water for half a month, along with some lightweight shelves and two camels. Ken Levin put away his compass and other modern equipment, only holding a wooden stick as he followed behind.
Ten days passed, and they had walked about eight hundred miles. On the eleventh morning, they indeed returned to Bishe. This time, Ken Levin finally understood: the reason Bishe people couldn't walk out of the desert was because they didn't know the North Star.
In the vast desert, if a person walks purely by feeling, they will end up walking in circles of various sizes, and their final path will likely resemble the shape of a measuring tape. Bishe village is located in the middle of an immense desert, with no reference points for hundreds of kilometers around. If one doesn't know the North Star and has no compass, it is indeed impossible to walk out of the desert.
When Ken Levin left Bishe, he took with him a young man named Agutel, who had worked with him previously. He told this man, "As long as you rest during the day and walk toward the star in the north at night, you can walk out of the desert." Agutel followed these instructions and indeed reached the edge of the desert after three days. Agutel thus became the trailblazer of Bishe, and his bronze statue was erected in the center of the small city. At the base of the statue, there is an inscription that reads: A new life begins when you set your direction.
I don't know what this story can bring to others. Based on my own experience, I believe that no matter how old a person is now, their true journey in life begins on the day they set their goal. The days before that were merely spent going in circles.