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Yes. I agree. And somehow Im not quite the same person now. A subtle change in my outlook on life.Dont worry about being a newbie asking such questions thats what forums are all about!!To be honest a 2 week or 10 day holiday leaves me in a desultory mood on return to my humble abode!!
"Real life" as you put it very well is probably what most of us our escaping and rightly so,
I think the camino just does that on a more deeper , spiritual basis and discombobulates youre mind even more so !! But in a good way!
Take the subtle change and go with it!! But dont let it go!! Even when embedded with the "real life" keep youre positive outlook and cling onto it!! Easier said than done thoughYes. I agree. And somehow Im not quite the same person now. A subtle change in my outlook on life.
Time is not an issue anymore. Days floating by.
Well, I can say with all my heart.... I have more confidence and self-worth after my solo week on the Magical Meseta. Have done Frances and Portuguese with friend which was also very good but somehow walking those vistas on my own and twice being the only pilgrim in the albergue, did some great wonderful thing in my soul.I'm a newbie here so forgive me if anyone has already talked about this. Did anyone else experience the strange sensation when returning home that you had been away for six months? That somehow you had jumped out of normal time for a month, had this amazing experience, then, suddenly transported back to "real life".
The Camino was possibly the best experience of my life and six months later still digesting the experience and trying to incorporate some of the lessons learned.
This June I'm going back . Not sure which route but it will be fantastic I'm sure.
As I get older (63) I find time is going by way too fast. I am looking forward to time slowing down when I do my first Camino this May.I'm a newbie here so forgive me if anyone has already talked about this. Did anyone else experience the strange sensation when returning home that you had been away for six months? That somehow you had jumped out of normal time for a month, had this amazing experience, then, suddenly transported back to "real life".
The Camino was possibly the best experience of my life and six months later still digesting the experience and trying to incorporate some of the lessons learned.
This June I'm going back . Not sure which route but it will be fantastic I'm sure.
. The average pilgrim takes between thirty and forty days to walk t el Camino from the Pyrenees to Santiago. One could cover the distance in one day by car, but for you the world has slowed down to a pilgrim pace."
Imagine hiring a car in Pamplona and driving on the A-highway to Santiago. At 100km per hour it would take about 8 hours. So, you have 'done' the camino Frances in 8 hours.
You've said goodbye to the 'self' you knew before and you'll never be the same.
I wrote an article about time on the Camino for a magazine, way back in 2011.early to bed, long night sleeping. The average pilgrim takes between thirty and forty days to walk t el Camino from the Pyrenees to Santiago. One could cover the distance in one day by car, but for you the world has slowed down to a pilgrim pace."
"When you rise in the dark, hit the road before dawn, follow the traverse of the sun from east to west, day after day, you lose all sense of time. You become a part of an animate landscape, in synch with the tempo of the earth. The rest of the world recedes until it plays no part in your life. You walk for hours oblivious of the distance you have covered. Days stretch into long, stimulating periods of time broken up by dawn, stopping for coffee, walking till mid-day, finding lunch, lazy afternoons,
Imagine hiring a car in Pamplona and driving on the A-highway to Santiago. At 100km per hour it would take about 8 hours. So, you have 'done' the camino Frances in 8 hours. If I try to picture that, it is like a high speed, fast-forward film with everything blurred, and sounds a jumbled, chipmunk squeak. They say that speed, distance and time are related to each other because, speed is directly comparable to distance when time is constant. For the walking pilgrim, every day is a 'looooooonnng' day and a week is like a month in normal time and a month is forever."
PS: There is also the time of present and of past - 21st Century and 11th Century. In some places you have feelings of deja vu "I know this church, have I been here before?" You are in different aeons, trudging in the footsteps of pilgrims past. You've said goodbye to the 'self' you knew before and you'll never be the same.
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