Peter Clifton
Sore Feet Pete
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances May 2016
As part of my training for my first Camino in May, I’m walking about 4 km to the swimming pool, having a swim, then walking the 4 kilometres back home. So today one of the regulars at the swimming pool asked me what I was doing. When I explained to him that I was in training to walk 800 km in Spain he just gave me this incredulous look and with an unsettling smirk on his face asked me, “Why……….. why would you want to do that?”
So on my walk back home from the pool I reflected on the reasons I was walking the Camino. When I first decided to walk the Camino a little over 12 months ago it was because it would be an adventure and I thought it would give me time to reflect and consider on what I should be doing, given that I'd recently retired. But now, after having read and watched so much about the Camino, having researched all that I could, having gathered all the necessary gear and equipment, I now feel that the Camino is not something that I would like to do but it is something that I NEED to do. It is almost like, I didn’t choose the Camino, the Camino chose me.
Does this mean that at 64 I'm turning into some sort of new age hippie (or whatever the modern day equivalent is) or are there other fellow pilgrims out there who've experienced such feelings.
So on my walk back home from the pool I reflected on the reasons I was walking the Camino. When I first decided to walk the Camino a little over 12 months ago it was because it would be an adventure and I thought it would give me time to reflect and consider on what I should be doing, given that I'd recently retired. But now, after having read and watched so much about the Camino, having researched all that I could, having gathered all the necessary gear and equipment, I now feel that the Camino is not something that I would like to do but it is something that I NEED to do. It is almost like, I didn’t choose the Camino, the Camino chose me.
Does this mean that at 64 I'm turning into some sort of new age hippie (or whatever the modern day equivalent is) or are there other fellow pilgrims out there who've experienced such feelings.
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