Pront: North of there.

One of the first jobs I had in a company was that of a messenger, and that was in the middle of adolescence. And I remember a lot, that my main means of transport was the Caracas metro, and the truth is that thanks to that underground train, I could go from one side of the city to the other in a very short time.

In addition, in the subway at that time, there was something called "The metro culture" and unlike now, one had a great time inside the facilities and on the carriages. So, when I was sent to do a stagecoach, I would run on the subway, and when I arrived at the station, I would look at the maps inside it, to get the address where I was going.

One day the head of the department where I was assigned, was changed and they put a new boss, and he gave the instructions, of certain tasks to the workers personally, with the idea of getting to know all his staff through a direct deal.

To us it seemed like a strange lake, but he always called a different person to his office, to assign a task, even if it was something insignificant. But that allowed Mr. Hernández to get to know each member of his staff directly, and to establish an affective dynamic with the staff, in fact, every time he asked someone to stay for a few extra hours, we all did it.

I remember that Mr. Hernández called me one day, and in addition to assigning me the office job, he asked me for a personal favor, which was to take some documents to his wife's work. And when he explained the address to me, I turned green, since I was not used to his way of locating himself.

He told me: you arrive at the Dos Caminos station, take the northwest exit, walk east to the corner, then go up three blocks to the north, and in the middle of the third block to the east, there is the Delta building, on the south block.

I remember that, after he explained the address to me, I looked at him, and I said, Mr. Hernandez, "I didn't understand anything." He looked at me and realized that I had not understood, and explained to me. So that you do not get lost, you should never know the cardinal points of the city where you live. He took a piece of paper and explained it to me with arrows.

In Caracas, the Ávila is to the north, and he marked the arrow, and everything that is in front of the Ávila is the south, and he marked the arrow, and if you stand in front of the Ávila, what is on your right is the east, and what is on your left is the west. Do you understand? And I said yes.

Let's do a test. If I tell you to get off at the northwest exit of the Parque del Este subway, which exit do you take? And at that moment I imagined myself standing in front of the Ávila and I said to him: I must leave by the door that is in the direction towards Propatria, on the right side, which is the side that faces the Ávila.

Mr. Hernandez smiled and gave me the paper where I wrote down the address, and I went to do the errand without problems. And that was how I learned to locate myself with the cardinal directions, and also how to do it within my city, which has been extremely useful to me in life.

Thank you very much, for reading me.

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