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Yup. I came to that realization about halfway through my second Camino.On a later Camino, someone asked what could prompt me to get so far out of my "comfort zone". "I understand your question", I replied, "I hope that you can understand my answer. The Camino IS my "comfort zone" now."
Oh I’m right there with you. My first Camino solidified that I’m not cut out for the typical American, 9-5, consumer-oriented, stay in one place, way of life. I knew this but I fought it for a long time, wanting to be “normal”. But after coming home I couldn’t deny it and also being home after the Camino was really painful. However, I don’t regret it because I needed to clean up some parts of my life before I took off last fall for my longer Camino. I bumbled around in a job or two before realizing I needed to get serious, save a crapload of money, settle some debts and make plans....and take off.Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
Which is not to say you shouldn't 'hit the road.' It's in the going that will show you what's what and where your current dissatisfaction cones from
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
If it were possible, I would be living on or close to the camino. There is just something missing living in the ratrace even though I am retired and almost completely out of itHello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
I have just finished a book about three Camino's French way I will leave the title of the book to the last line. This post brings me to tears, I am just like you Gwaihir, I live in New Zealand I am 70, I don't like NZ anymore and man do I get stick for that all | can say to people to defend myself is. (you don't understand).Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
Steady there, brother.
You're right.
But the good thing is that while everyone around you is up to their necks in stress, you don't have to participate in the endless striving that creates it. We actually need very little. And while you're contemplating an different way of being in the world, find ways to give yourself space...walk along the river, out in nature.
The hard truth that we all face at some point is wherever we go, the mind comes with us. There's no escape from that. So if there's habitual dissatisfaction, and Holland is merely the current target of that, no matter where you go it'll come up again. Ultimately, external conditions are never the suffering - it's how we relate to them that creates that.
Which is not to say you shouldn't 'hit the road.' It's in the going that will show you what's what and where your current dissatisfaction cones from. So give it a go and see where life takes you. You absolutely don't have to robotically follow the herd, living to work, rather than the other way around.
I stopped living a like everyone else 20 years ago and have never looked back.
Hi there. My wife and I did it. In 2004 we left Edinburgh in Scotland to move to a small village of 300 souls in Andalucia to try and survive running a Bed & Breakfast. It was different for us as we left not because we had a problem with living in Edinburgh, but because my wife had health problems and was long-term unemployed. It took us a couple of years to decide to jump. It has NOT been an easy 15 years but it was something that we have never regretted doing. Good luck.Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
If that's what's coming up, trust that, and follow it, Gwaihir.I think my Camino is incomplete in the sense that I do not yet know how to integrate all of the peacefulness into my life, and I think I need a temporary transition setting where I can both work and try to be mindful at the same time, in a social setting.
Wow, that's not my experience at all. There can be culture shock, but eventually the mind settles down.when you’re an expat, you are never 100% satisfied wherever you are
Here goes—when you’re an expat, you are never 100% satisfied wherever you are. When away, you begin to notice the good things about home and when home you pine for the good things about wherever your away place is.
Thank you, @simply B - those are exactly the words I have been trying to find.The Camino IS my "comfort zone" now."
yes. For me is the same. I did my Camino during April this year and I'm thinking how to come back again as soon as it is possible.The Camino calls you, as it does all of us. Is suggest you think yourself lucky, and plan some time either as a volunteer in the pilgrim office or as a hospitalero, and once you have that under your belt you can go back to it again and again.
Like a tree that has been transplanted several times, her roots are in this country are fragile.
I have been blessed in finding a way to be present where I happen to be, whether it is home or not.
While I was home for the summer I met this girl....
That is what I love and miss.
Congratulations! Yup...just go!I got a temp job waiting for me abroad. It´s really exciting and intimidating, well the same exact feeling I had when I left for the Camino. But "the future is calling". Better listen to it.
Sure you can. Because you already know how - but just have to find your way back there.When nobody is breathing, I find it very hard to breathe. But I hope I can learn it.
I've lived as an expat for 9 of the last 11 years. I understand some of the difficulties. For me there was clarity that I wanted and needed to leave, but it took me about 3 years to work out a way to do that.Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
Good onya mate ! The more pilgrims stories’ I hear -while on the Camino (ps I have walked the Camino 4 times so far and been a hospitelero and god willing I will walk again on the Camino ) the more I realise how the call of the Camino attracts so many people at the cutting edge of a modern life - in a state of transformation and healing - no longer fitting into the old world - a world that no longer resonates . We are looking and creating a new world in our pilgrimages , our life experiences and our seeking . We seem to all have very interesting and unique stories and seeking a new way to live - we are now all global citizens in a changing , complex world where we are trying to ‘simplify ‘ and find a place we can truly be at home -“somewhere , somehow we’ll find a new way of living “ . Keep on keepin’ on fellow pilgrim -keep putting one foot in front of the other . We are all in this together . Cheers mate . Buen CaminoI really enjoyed reading this topic, it sounds like the OP has had the answer he's looking for, for now? I'm reminded of something that Osho writes that resonated with me reading all the other very insightful lessons. “Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.”
I am currently living in NI disillusioned by the onset of Brexit, weighing up weather to walk away, sell up and buy an apartment in Madrid. Not to escape from the rat race but to give my spiritual being an opportnnity to flourish and fulfil my potential. Are we spiritual beings having a human experience! I ponder and having walked 4 Caminos in 13 months I've finally found the anecdote. It's taken me this amount of time to experience resistance on the way . I flowed through my first 3 walks and finally on the last CF in September I received a valuable lesson/s. Food poisoning, swollen ankle, assault, mugging, hospitalised, concussion . I will not be consciously returning to the trail again, i'll wait for the call and in mean time live the Camino that we carry with us, live more purposefully with less, avoid resistance and continue to find and stay in flow. Although I have joined a running club, setting up a walking club, currently learning Spanish and presently researching Madrid Camino as a curiosity
Ultreia my learned friend, I appreciate the considered response and read your pov wirh interest. The fires experienced in your homeland will test your resolve, its an awakening for all of us. I hope your safe and continue to find clariryWe are looking and creating a new world in our pilgrimaged and our seeking
Yes, I agree .. after the Camino de Santiago finished we are back into the real Camino -The Camino of life -The Camino does not end in SdC it is only the turning point. How you do the second part is up to you.
Hello Gwaihir!Hello Pilgrims.
I just returned from the Camino a week ago, and what I feared would happen, happened.
I don´t like my country. The rat-race, the hurry... the amount of people who work themselves into a burn-out because it´s "necessary" somehow.
I struggled with this before the Camino, but now it´s a million times worse - the thought of living here long-term is unbearable.
So I am guessing I am leaving again. Work abroad for a while.
I am looking for people who can recognize this and also from people who actually decided: I am leaving my country.
Was it a slow realization, or a fast one, and what steps did you take to make it true?
Gwaihir.
Congratulations for making the transition and living your best life. The love you have for your homeland will always be and you'll appreciate it even more when your ready to return and the fallout of Brexit will have settled. Your in right place, at right time doing the right thing and the Camino will help you adjust to the feeling of missing home, it will become your home from home and I'm grateful to you for your positive intention and like the Camino has shown me, trust and believe in all your decisions, both good and bad, leave behind expectations, go forward with purpose and hope and give out loveI managed to get a job in a town in Andalucía and I moved here 3months ago!
Congratulations for making the transition and living your best life. The love you have for your homeland will always be and you'll appreciate it even more when your ready to return and the fallout of Brexit will have settled. Your in right place, at right time doing the right thing and the Camino will help you adjust to the feeling of missing home, it will become your home from home and I'm grateful to you for your positive intention and like the Camino has shown me, trust and believe in all your decisions, both good and bad, leave behind expectations, go forward with purpose and hope and give out love
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