falconbrother
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- June - July 2024
I'm on day three back at work from walking the Camino Frances. I feel a bit homesick. I could have lived that life indefinitely I think. I wasn't ready for it to be over, when it was over.
My wife said it best: "The Camino is what the church ought to be." Pilgrims being kind and helpful to each other. That was our experience anyway.
Coming back to the world it feels very dog eat dog. People cut each other off to get to a red light. Being rude and uncaring when it serves no purpose other than to encourage neurosis. The Camino is a peaceful place. It created a newer level of peace in me. The world races around me and I have no interest in participating in competition that goes nowhere. People who have no peace rise to power in a dysfunctional system...whether it's in a micro system or a macro system. My ego self feels really quiet and more than willing to allow what is to be.....where no one is actually being harmed.
Living out of a backpack and simply walking everyday did wonders. It's amazing how little we need to be happy in life (food, clothes, a place to sleep and friends) when we stop perpetually craving to be somewhere and someone else. Life only unfolds and gets lived now, here. My amazing wife and I are trying to figure out how to take this experience into the rest of our lives....how to encourage it and nurture it....share it.
I could go on..
My wife said it best: "The Camino is what the church ought to be." Pilgrims being kind and helpful to each other. That was our experience anyway.
Coming back to the world it feels very dog eat dog. People cut each other off to get to a red light. Being rude and uncaring when it serves no purpose other than to encourage neurosis. The Camino is a peaceful place. It created a newer level of peace in me. The world races around me and I have no interest in participating in competition that goes nowhere. People who have no peace rise to power in a dysfunctional system...whether it's in a micro system or a macro system. My ego self feels really quiet and more than willing to allow what is to be.....where no one is actually being harmed.
Living out of a backpack and simply walking everyday did wonders. It's amazing how little we need to be happy in life (food, clothes, a place to sleep and friends) when we stop perpetually craving to be somewhere and someone else. Life only unfolds and gets lived now, here. My amazing wife and I are trying to figure out how to take this experience into the rest of our lives....how to encourage it and nurture it....share it.
I could go on..