- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2022)
On arriving in Santiago at the end of my Camino I bumped into a Pilgrim I had met a few days earlier. We had an interesting conversation where he asked me whether I considered my decision to walk the Camino Frances to be a selfish act. He made the point that in choosing to walk for six weeks without my husband that I had spent money and time on myself. Did I think that I was choosing 'me' over 'us'? Was it not really a case of self-indulgence? I have to confess that initially I was quite insulted but it actually got me thinking. I really had never considered it in that way.
My husband was very supportive of my choice. He does not feel the call himself though he would very much enjoy the walking and the camaraderie. In fact I had planned we would walk the Camino Ingles and after to Finisterre in June 2020 but we all know what happened to that!
I suppose I felt that since it was a pilgrimage rather than a holiday that I wasn't being frivolous or enjoying myself for six weeks whilst he slaved away at work. As it was my Camino was everything and more and brought me so much joy not to mention hardship and a realisation of my strengths and faults. As for my spiritual growth, it almost brings me to tears just thinking of what it showed me.
It still has me thinking though.
My husband was very supportive of my choice. He does not feel the call himself though he would very much enjoy the walking and the camaraderie. In fact I had planned we would walk the Camino Ingles and after to Finisterre in June 2020 but we all know what happened to that!
I suppose I felt that since it was a pilgrimage rather than a holiday that I wasn't being frivolous or enjoying myself for six weeks whilst he slaved away at work. As it was my Camino was everything and more and brought me so much joy not to mention hardship and a realisation of my strengths and faults. As for my spiritual growth, it almost brings me to tears just thinking of what it showed me.
It still has me thinking though.