AnnieBobanny
New Member
Hello everyone,
I´m reporting in from the Camino. Wow. It´s only my 4th day and already I´ve experienced so many ups and downs, joys and pains, sometimes I wonder WHAT in the hell I am doing out here, other times I think there is nowhere else I want to be.
It´s been hard going, given my general lack of fitness, weight, and smoky lungs. But I guess given all that, it´s not going so bad. Last night I was seriously ready to quit. That was it, I was done. I was in so much pain I knew I couldn´t go another step. After a night´s sleep and not wanting to go home feeling like a failure, I decided to go on. I thought, ok, it´s difficult, but I´m not going to die, and if it were easy, why do it ? So I was about 2km out from the place I stayed in Biskaretta, not feeling at all sure I was doing the right thing or if I wanted to be there or if I could bear the pain in my calves and feet. Then I looked up and there was a stop sign. Which someone had spray pained the words "don´t" and "walking" so it read "don´t stop walking". and I just burst into tears. It was what I needed. And I knew I would keep going. I read on here before someone wrote that on the Camino you get what you need. And when you least expect it. I got what I needed. So onward I go, totally unsure, in pain, hoping not to run out of money before I get to Santiago, etc, etc, etc, but I go anyway, because for some inexplicable reason, I know I have to.
gotta go. Time is about to run out on this machine. Don´t know when I´ll be able to log in again.
Buen Camino!!!
Annie
I´m reporting in from the Camino. Wow. It´s only my 4th day and already I´ve experienced so many ups and downs, joys and pains, sometimes I wonder WHAT in the hell I am doing out here, other times I think there is nowhere else I want to be.
It´s been hard going, given my general lack of fitness, weight, and smoky lungs. But I guess given all that, it´s not going so bad. Last night I was seriously ready to quit. That was it, I was done. I was in so much pain I knew I couldn´t go another step. After a night´s sleep and not wanting to go home feeling like a failure, I decided to go on. I thought, ok, it´s difficult, but I´m not going to die, and if it were easy, why do it ? So I was about 2km out from the place I stayed in Biskaretta, not feeling at all sure I was doing the right thing or if I wanted to be there or if I could bear the pain in my calves and feet. Then I looked up and there was a stop sign. Which someone had spray pained the words "don´t" and "walking" so it read "don´t stop walking". and I just burst into tears. It was what I needed. And I knew I would keep going. I read on here before someone wrote that on the Camino you get what you need. And when you least expect it. I got what I needed. So onward I go, totally unsure, in pain, hoping not to run out of money before I get to Santiago, etc, etc, etc, but I go anyway, because for some inexplicable reason, I know I have to.
gotta go. Time is about to run out on this machine. Don´t know when I´ll be able to log in again.
Buen Camino!!!
Annie