- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2012
It seems to me that I am seeing more and more posts lately from people who have “lost” various items, from the crucial like credencials to the peripheral such as hats. We have seen posts about poles, cameras, necklaces, power adapters, sunglasses, guidebooks, even clothing.
I wonder if it’s people so focused on the prize, their goal, that they have lost all situational awareness. They stop walking, they put things down, they start walking again. They never look back, they never check “Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch”. Though how anyone can fail to notice the absence of an umbrella in the rain or a walking pole unless it was just an ornament stretches even my vivid imagination.
Every third Peregrino will have abandoned something somewhere. I think I could probably start walking from Roncesvalles with an empty backpack and be fully equipped by Pamplona and by Burgos I could probably open a store but how or why is this occurring?? Is it a (please pardon the language) “head-space” thing? That people are so wrapped into the experience that they have lost any perception of the process.
When that nice Galilean said “take up thy bed and walk” I’m sure the implication was “and make sure you have the rest of your stuff with you when you go”…
I wonder if it’s people so focused on the prize, their goal, that they have lost all situational awareness. They stop walking, they put things down, they start walking again. They never look back, they never check “Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch”. Though how anyone can fail to notice the absence of an umbrella in the rain or a walking pole unless it was just an ornament stretches even my vivid imagination.
Every third Peregrino will have abandoned something somewhere. I think I could probably start walking from Roncesvalles with an empty backpack and be fully equipped by Pamplona and by Burgos I could probably open a store but how or why is this occurring?? Is it a (please pardon the language) “head-space” thing? That people are so wrapped into the experience that they have lost any perception of the process.
When that nice Galilean said “take up thy bed and walk” I’m sure the implication was “and make sure you have the rest of your stuff with you when you go”…