finding one's way back

its late. i need to sleep but i also want to think about a recent quote I saw and think through it, so ill put the quote out now and think through it later...."philosophical problems have their beginnings in the feeling of being lost in an unfamiliar place, and philosophical answers are in the nature of finding one's way back." (From Veena Das' reading of Wittgenstein). In finding our way back, we also seem to be finding our way forward. Sorting through the past, interrogating it, making sense of it, understanding it, misunderstanding it, constructing, deconstructing. Maybe it is only once we have found our way back that we can move forward. It seems the past allows us to formulate the very philosophical answers that will guide our present. This relationship to the unfamiliar is also interesting. The unfamiliar distresses, challenges and yet shapes and forms that which we will become.