ElliotfromAus
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Walking Camino Frances beginning 11th September 2017
Hello everyone,
Having completed the camino a few weeks ago and returned home I have been thinking about what it meant and what I learned from it. One of the people I met along the way posted this reflection and I think it just about verbalises what I thought and learned along the way.
Lessons and Reflections >
• At least once a day you feel defeated and incapable
• At least once a day you feel strong and invincible
• None of these feelings reflect the reality (Fortunately)
• Dried Fruit and biscuits as if there was no tomorrow to avoid falling sugar\
• 80 % of the things you think are necessary are useless and will weigh all day in your backpack on your back
• How long is a step
• How long is a metre
• Where are your tendons (oh yes, you have some tendons there too!
• Many people lose their jobs and decide to walk
• Many people get fired and decide to walk
• Boys and girls fall in love
• Hungarian girls start alone with a tent for 2, meet Italian boys only parties: they end up finding who brings the tent and who makes love
• Thirst for wifi
• The real thirst that you walk for hours and having finished the water supply (then you won't even know what wifi is)
• Walk, eat, drink, sleep
• Strangers are not strangers
• You're not scared, at 5 in the morning, in the dark with a flashlight: all you can meet is another like you
• When you see the bell tower it's not over: it's still a long way to the fucking bell
• At a certain point 10 km stop being 8 minutes by car and become 2 and a half hours
• Don't need a mirror to dress before you leave
• Sunrises, sunsets, wine wine, cerveza
• Don't need a mirror almost ever at the end in life
• Re-rate your middle-class clothing: Pouch, batteries, poncho, suit, socks and sandals. Bad is useful, almost always
• The Spirit of sharing
• Sometimes I worry too much.
Having completed the camino a few weeks ago and returned home I have been thinking about what it meant and what I learned from it. One of the people I met along the way posted this reflection and I think it just about verbalises what I thought and learned along the way.
Lessons and Reflections >
• At least once a day you feel defeated and incapable
• At least once a day you feel strong and invincible
• None of these feelings reflect the reality (Fortunately)
• Dried Fruit and biscuits as if there was no tomorrow to avoid falling sugar\
• 80 % of the things you think are necessary are useless and will weigh all day in your backpack on your back
• How long is a step
• How long is a metre
• Where are your tendons (oh yes, you have some tendons there too!
• Many people lose their jobs and decide to walk
• Many people get fired and decide to walk
• Boys and girls fall in love
• Hungarian girls start alone with a tent for 2, meet Italian boys only parties: they end up finding who brings the tent and who makes love
• Thirst for wifi
• The real thirst that you walk for hours and having finished the water supply (then you won't even know what wifi is)
• Walk, eat, drink, sleep
• Strangers are not strangers
• You're not scared, at 5 in the morning, in the dark with a flashlight: all you can meet is another like you
• When you see the bell tower it's not over: it's still a long way to the fucking bell
• At a certain point 10 km stop being 8 minutes by car and become 2 and a half hours
• Don't need a mirror to dress before you leave
• Sunrises, sunsets, wine wine, cerveza
• Don't need a mirror almost ever at the end in life
• Re-rate your middle-class clothing: Pouch, batteries, poncho, suit, socks and sandals. Bad is useful, almost always
• The Spirit of sharing
• Sometimes I worry too much.