Hola !
I just got back from my first week on the Camino, just a teaser for my five next week in September, going to Santiago.
The start was kind of hard until I said good-bye to my dear friends, finally realising that I had to walk in my own pace and tempo. Then I loved it. I think that is a key thing for enduring all those days of walking, walking in the tempo, pace and length you feel like, and not feeling like you HAVE to get as far as fast as all the others.
In fact, the one thing that dissapointed me at the Camino, was what I soon came to call "the Camino rush". "Everybody" getting up at four, being the first to pack their bags, the first on the road, the first to the next albergue, the first in the shower, the first to wash clothes, and the first to sleep. Isn't that the same stress as we have in our busy daily lives ? Where is the time to reflection, meditation, religious thinking or whatever else spiritual experiance people are looking for ? Or is the Camino to many people just another form for marathon ?
Hopefully, noone gets offended by my prior words in this post, but I hope to get some respons about what my fellow pilgrims think about this.
For whatever reason and way people are walking the Camino, I wish you all a buen Camino, and I wish to send my best wishes and love to the people I met along my way, that touched my heart in so many and different good ways.
And thank you for the good advices I got from reading all the posts on this forum.
Liv.
I just got back from my first week on the Camino, just a teaser for my five next week in September, going to Santiago.
The start was kind of hard until I said good-bye to my dear friends, finally realising that I had to walk in my own pace and tempo. Then I loved it. I think that is a key thing for enduring all those days of walking, walking in the tempo, pace and length you feel like, and not feeling like you HAVE to get as far as fast as all the others.
In fact, the one thing that dissapointed me at the Camino, was what I soon came to call "the Camino rush". "Everybody" getting up at four, being the first to pack their bags, the first on the road, the first to the next albergue, the first in the shower, the first to wash clothes, and the first to sleep. Isn't that the same stress as we have in our busy daily lives ? Where is the time to reflection, meditation, religious thinking or whatever else spiritual experiance people are looking for ? Or is the Camino to many people just another form for marathon ?
Hopefully, noone gets offended by my prior words in this post, but I hope to get some respons about what my fellow pilgrims think about this.
For whatever reason and way people are walking the Camino, I wish you all a buen Camino, and I wish to send my best wishes and love to the people I met along my way, that touched my heart in so many and different good ways.
And thank you for the good advices I got from reading all the posts on this forum.
Liv.