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Why Walk the Camino? Where? When? With whom?
How the Camino can change your life: Personal experiences and expectations
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[QUOTE="Shells, post: 1219038, member: 94569"] Hi there—my own experience is that you may not be able to help having expectations or hopes, but you may receive something you didn’t expect at all. I can only tell you what happened to me: In the space of six months, four of my family members, including my dear mother and unborn granddaughter, died. During the next six months, my 20 year career came to an abrupt end (my choice to stop the emotional bleeding, but not how I had ever envisioned something into which I had poured so much of my heart ending.) I also decided to relinquish my ancestral home, rather than continue through a nasty probate, with a brother whom I had loved and trusted, but who now bitterly blamed me for executing my mother’s will. When I walked the Camino, I was beyond tired, and I was heartily sick of the recriminations and bitterness that filled every waking hour. I thought that I would have time to analyze how everything had changed so quickly, to assign blame, find vindication, and to assure myself that I was actually the hero. That didn’t happen. Instead, the tiresome turntable in my mind that played the same record of “what-should-I-have-said-and-done-differently” fell silent for the first time in months. I fell asleep instantly at night and slept dreamlessly. It’s funny: I never thought about all the things that were plaguing me at all—even when I consciously tried. And when I reached the end of my Camino, I somehow knew exactly what to do next. I didn’t gain answers to my questions, but rather peace. And outrageous, unexpected, brilliant joy. [/QUOTE]
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