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[QUOTE="lt56ny, post: 1144428, member: 19122"] I do not think that anything that [USER=14061]@Tincatinker[/USER] was trying to say should be taken as concerning. He is just expressing an opinion that for many people would be valid and even a source of relief. I know there is a spectrum of planning everything on ones camino to the minutia to walking without any guidebooks or preconceptions and just allowing everything to happen in the moment. I will say that, of course, on my first camino I was nervous and had anxiety. I walked with the Brierley guidebook and no phone and little knowledge. This forum helped for sure and I did speak to someone in my town about what to bring and thankfully she was a minimalist. My second camino I walked from Le Puy to Santiago with no knowledge of French, no telephone and a Michelin guidebook that was almost useless. I know we are all different. We all have basic comfort levels. Basic knowledge of what one is doing is a good thing We can obtain knowledge in many ways. To simplify one was is by reading or research and the other way by doing. Of course there will be a mixture of both. I think there is a power and freedom when I achieve something by doing. As each challenge presented itself to me, especially from Le Puy, I just took things one step at a time. I walked some days much further than I wanted. I even walked some days with no food from breakfast until dinner. I had no ability to ask for help but I managed and succeeded and had a fantastic experience. The joy, pain, focus, meditative states, the aloneness, the days with virtually no conversation as no one I met in a gite could speak English and I had no smart phone for a translation, helped to teach me one of the great lessons of pilgrimage. All you need is yourself, all you have is the step you are taking, and all possessions that you need you can carry on your back. On pilgrimage, "Together we walk alone". There is never a need to be concerned or bothered by what others have said. Often times, as I am sure you know, the best advice or knowledge you can receive is the words you may least want to hear because they may challenge what you say you "want" to learn or experience. That "want" may be cutting off the possibility of learning what you really "need". What I am trying to say and what I believe others are saying also is to let things go. Allow your camino to unfold as naturally and as organically as possible. Just take things one step at a time. Because that step is all you have. Keep your eyes and ears and heart open and outward when your body tells you and when your body tells you look inward and introspective. Or just really let go and let everything out without question to allow something new to come in. Remember all the junk in your brain is what gets most of us on the camino in the first place. After all these years we should realize we may never figure it out and who the hell cares. Let something new and fresh and bright in. You have a long list of wants and expectations. Let them all go and just walk. Even with years of preparation, your first step may bring something you never expected or prepared for. There is such a joy and freedom in what to you may be chaos or uncertainty. Just a suggestion. If you reject all this fine, and you walk the way you want. It is all up to you. But I have a feeling if you let it all go and just walk you will gain all the knowledge you need with each step and gain a lightness and joy you could never imagine or plan for. Buen camino [/QUOTE]
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