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I never felt special instead of ordinary but what did happen was the ordinary became special !Hi HB560!
Yep I would happily have added these to my post above; but forgot to put them on my shopping list
Regarding the ego bit i suppose it's the fact i feel special instead of ordinary; does that make sense?
Buen Camino
Woody
Buen Camino. - hope it’s not too warm.For me, it’s a bit hard to articulate, but it has to do with testing myself and my ability to deal with hardship. I expect to be tired, hungry, cold, hot, miserable, wet, under all kinds of weather conditions, which for some reason is exactly why I want to do something that an intellectual person like me is not very used to. There is probably an element of ego in all of this, because I want to be able to say “I walked across Spain, all 500 miles, every single damn step”, because to me that would be a monumental feat that was unthinkable for me to even try. But I’m getting older, with some assorted ailments, so I know that at some point, my health will go downhill. While I’ve accomplished many things in my life, like my college degrees, doing the Camino feels more of a raw, grounded, authentic experience, where I’ll have to rely on my resilience, my wits, my stamina, and face risks, danger, and the possibility of failure (it just takes a fracture-producing fall to end my walk). I’ve never attempted anything like this, and it feels like I’m getting in touch with something very primal within me, by getting out of my head and into my body.
I don’t know if I’ll succeed, but something in me is telling me “do it anyway, even if you fail”.
So I’ll go. I’ll walk, hopefully every single step of the way.
I particularly Love the last sentence of your post Woody66. Due to extremely bad deterioration in my Spine, I can no longer physically walk without severe pain, but, your lines here have really "hit a cord and Resonate very deeply.I didn't know where this was going to go when i started this post but i feel better now
I don't know if this is appropriate in the context of your post!
For me the Camino or the thought and desire to walk the Camino; became a catalyst that re affirmed in me the fact that i am still alive and game enough for an adventure with purpose!
After doing it my head and heart changed ; i felt more content in myself and my life than i had done for some years. (probably because i knew i wanted that feeling again)
I now have something special to me that no one i know has experienced and i will walk until i can't anymore!
I just wonder if that same feeling exists ;in those of us that are older teenagers
It gives me the same feeling as i had 50 years ago traveling Europe on my motorcycle; thinking i was John Wayne disappearing into the sunset!!!
I posted before my tattoo says "Don't let your head stop your heart from moving" have memories not dreams and keep walking!!!
Well said. I have many of the same thoughts.For me, it’s a bit hard to articulate, but it has to do with testing myself and my ability to deal with hardship. I expect to be tired, hungry, cold, hot, miserable, wet, under all kinds of weather conditions, which for some reason is exactly why I want to do something that an intellectual person like me is not very used to. There is probably an element of ego in all of this, because I want to be able to say “I walked across Spain, all 500 miles, every single damn step”, because to me that would be a monumental feat that was unthinkable for me to even try. But I’m getting older, with some assorted ailments, so I know that at some point, my health will go downhill. While I’ve accomplished many things in my life, like my college degrees, doing the Camino feels more of a raw, grounded, authentic experience, where I’ll have to rely on my resilience, my wits, my stamina, and face risks, danger, and the possibility of failure (it just takes a fracture-producing fall to end my walk). I’ve never attempted anything like this, and it feels like I’m getting in touch with something very primal within me, by getting out of my head and into my body.
I don’t know if I’ll succeed, but something in me is telling me “do it anyway, even if you fail”.
So I’ll go. I’ll walk, hopefully every single step of the way.
For me it's releasing the burden of my daily life.For what ever reason, i took that post to heart, and thought if an elderly man with all this on his shoulders could walk it?
Bradypus, have you ever written an uninteresting post? Methinks not.September 2016. In Beilari in SJPDP the night before beginning the Camino Frances for the third time. An older English gentleman in his 70s at the dinner table expressed some doubts about his fitness and decided to walk via Valcarlos with the option of stopping there if it all proved too hard. He looked very fit and well to me. I chose that route too and arrived to find him already ahead of me drinking coffee and reading a newspaper at a cafe about 11am. He decided to carry on to Roncesvalles. I would not have caught up with him again that day if he had not stopped on the way to support and encourage a much younger German man who was struggling - overweight and overloaded. Our paths crossed several times until we parted company after the Alto del Perdon.
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