This has come up before but it always fascinates me. Some people never manage to recapture the magic of their 'first time' and others seem to grow into the camino experience. (I am one of the evolving pilgrims and know that I still have a lot to learn so need to walk many more caminos!!)
I posted this a couple of years ago.
In “Journey to Portugal” Jose Saramago who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, said:
'The journey is never over. Only travellers come to an end. The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you missed the first time, see again what you already saw, see in springtime what you saw in summer, in daylight what you saw at night, see the sun shining where you saw the rain falling, see the crops growing, the fruit ripen, the stone which has moved, the shadow that was not there before. You have to go back to the footsteps already taken, to go over them again or add fresh ones alongside them. You have to start the journey anew. Always. The traveler sets out once more."