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I don't know if this has ever happened to any of you before but I would love to know how to get out of a slump I am in.
I wanted so badly to go on my Camino this year I could taste it. It seems like one thing after the other has hindered me from actually getting there. It's my 50th birthday this year and all along I thought I would be walking the Camino this next month. When I found out that I couldn't go this year I planned for next year settling with going to the Dominican Republic to do something...anything to take my mind off my camino but still keep me stoked for travelling. Now because of my foot I am even unable to do that. Surgery is needed so I wait yet again to get going.
I've waited so long and longing so badly to go that I've worn myself out and find that I an not so much losing interest as I am losing hope.
So what I am asking is if firstly anyone has had this experience...setback after setback...and how you coped and if those of you who finally made it there and even those who were able to get there no problem can re inspire me to keep the faith as it were...
Seriously...a photo...a memory...something to look forward to and plan. I have scoured every resource I have so maybe something new I can read or visit on the web...
Thanks
Pattii
Patti, Seasons and dates in our lives can seem so important. I am sorry that you won't be making it to Santiago for your 5oth birthday. It is clear that your discouragement comes from a strong longing to do your camino, which has been repeatedly frustrated. If you feel the frustration and the longing is still there, that is your calling crying out to you to. Treasure it and go when you can.I wanted so badly to go on my Camino this year I could taste it. It seems like one thing after the other has hindered me from actually getting there.
Have always said I would get a tattoo when I was finished the Camino. This is what it will read with a big yellow arrow and a shell....The path might be hard and the walls hemming you in, but keep following the arrow.......View attachment 19643
I really didn't. Funny thing ... that song has been true several times in my life but never more true than now. It was written over a decade ago. I thought things were a waiting game then...lol. I guess it was all training for the BIG wait!...lolI bet you never thought of your song as prophetic when you wrote it!
This is a very good piece of advice for life. Maybe it is a good thing to let the Camino passion wane a little, if you can pick up something more doable in the present.Don't consume your daily Camino for what could have been or paths you might have walked...
I don't know if this has ever happened to any of you before but I would love to know how to get out of a slump I am in.................
...........and if those of you who finally made it there and even those who were able to get there no problem can re inspire me to keep the faith as it were...
Seriously...a photo...a memory...something to look forward to and plan. I have scoured every resource I have so maybe something new I can read or visit on the web...
Thanks
Pattii
Thank you. I think learning Spanish really well might help a lot. I was taking some online and audio lessons but I think this year I will actually go to a class...making a solid move towards being there.Patti, what beautiful lyrics. Thank you so much for sharing them. What I have found motivational for me this past year is going to night school to learn Spanish. I am so looking forward to trying it out in Spain! I will finish the final level a week before I leave on my Camino after 12 months of study. I hope you find your motivation again.
Thank you. I think learning Spanish really well might help a lot. I was taking some online and audio lessons but I think this year I will actually go to a class...making a solid move towards being there.
I know I am stuck. It's been a really tough year of loss for me. I am coming to terms with much of that loss...and I think I had grand ideas of "walking it out". I have to motivate myself again and find things like the spanish lessons to hang on to so I don't get completely sucked under the big waves.
I am trying to think of my day to day life as my Camino and just keep going, "walking" as far as I can each day and giving myself kudos for pressing through.
I really appreciate the encouragement from all of you.
Blessings,
Pattii
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