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Three Weeks

ess1113

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April 2016
Three weeks ago I walked into Santiago de Compostela and returned home.

Every day I am at work and generally the day doesn't go as smoothly as I would like, but I return home and see the Distance Certificate and Compostela framed and hanging on the wall and I think to myself that I walked 800 km, met amazing people, saw incredible sights, and grew spiritually beyond my expectations and that brings me some consolation.

I look at the pictures posted online and I think: There I have been, and there I long to return.

Had a well meaning man I know ask me how the Camino changed me, no possible way I can explain that to anyone. I just recommended that he try it and then he would understand.

Can't wait until next May when I can start again and experience more.

Hope that sounds familiar to someone.
 
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Three weeks ago I walked into Santiago de Compostela and returned home.

Every day I am at work and generally the day doesn't go as smoothly as I would like, but I return home and see the Distance Certificate and Compostela framed and hanging on the wall and I think to myself that I walked 800 km, met amazing people, saw incredible sights, and grew spiritually beyond my expectations and that brings me some consolation.

I look at the pictures posted online and I think: There I have been, and there I long to return.

Had a well meaning man I know ask me how the Camino changed me, no possible way I can explain that to anyone. I just recommended that he try it and then he would understand.

Can't wait until next May when I can start again and experience more.

Hope that sounds familiar to someone.

I'd say that it sounds very familiar to many of us here.

Your Camino continues long after the walking stops. Perhaps we are too tired physically, too caught up mentally to process it all at the time but the experience plays out once we are home and trying to blend back into our lives.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross

Guess like many of us you are trying to live yourself through the puzzle into an answer that will become your new Way of walking through Life.
 
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That's totally true !
I'd say that it sounds very familiar to many of us here.

Your Camino continues long after the walking stops. Perhaps we are too tired physically, too caught up mentally to process it all at the time but the experience plays out once we are home and trying to blend back into our lives.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross

Guess like many of us you are trying to live yourself through the puzzle into an answer that will become your new Way of walking through Life.

Totally true.
 

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