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Like a medieval pilgrim, she said, 'you only do it once in a lifetime'. Medieval pilgrims, having gained their hard-won indulgence and possibly lost their health and strength in the process, were most unlikely to return,
Judging by Chaucer's Wife of Bath, we serial camino offenders existed in mediaeval times as well -
And thries hadde she been at Jerusalem;
She hadde passed many a straunge strem;
At Rome she hadde been, and at Boloigne,
In Galice at Seint-Jame, and at Coloigne.
Three times to Jerusalem in the 14th century makes my few passages to Seint-Jame look positively feeble. Perhaps I'm not as addicted as I thought.
From home would be impossible as Canada and Spain have this rather large body of water in the way. Having said that, I started my first Camino in May, and I will return in October.
I have never before been bitten by a bug like this, Camino calls to me. She is a siren whose embrace I need and desire.
After returning home, I realize that there is nothing here for me anymore. I dislike city life. I love my friends here, and I made better get back to the self examination tha friends on Camino.
I want to get back to the self examination that I started on the CF. I thought I had done enough when I came back to Canada, and I now realize I haven't.
I forgave others. I rationalized relationships. I grieved for my mother.
I did not forgive myself. I need to do that somehow.
There is a saying that is meant to be funny, but there is truth in it - "The only common factor in all your failed relationships is you."
So I think this time, if Camino provides, that will be my topic of conversation with myself. I deserve to be a better me than I am right now.
Who has walked all the way from home, and maybe even back again, more than once, and why did you feel the need to go the proverbial second mile?
Canada and Spain have this rather large body of water in the way.
I think I may be disappointed a second time as my expectations would be so high after this fabulous experience. Don't get me wrong. I will keep walking but there are so many other great places to walk.
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