Nanc
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances (Sept 2016)
SDC/ Finesterre/ Muxia (2016)
hmm i think i have too much time on my hands. I've got all the gear I need. The training hikes that used to be a challenge are easier and over faster. So I think about you guys as I walk. There are a couple of threads running through my mind. This is one.
what i have learned as a forum member:
Keep an open mind to others' ideas that challenge you.
When an OP asks a question, they need a sharing of one's experience, not a judgment about the question or warnings about presumed ancillary thoughts. Just answer the question.
When responding to a post, check the date. Some posts get resurrected by a search and may be years old.
When responding to a post, read the whole thing. Many posters with questions or a dilemma, have all ready resolved their problems, when someones comes up with a no-longer- needed sound bite.
Sarcasm, flippancy, and innuendo are very hard to take as intended through so many translations, nationalities and cultures. They don't translate well in print. Just say what you really mean. It will save a lot of apologies.
Do not disregard what you already know about yourself. If you know a larger pack fits your frame, or trail shoes suck, or if you are always cold, do not allow another individual's passion about what worked for them, take you away from your own instincts. Sure give it a try but you don't have to force their solution on yourself.
If you are tried of a thread, just don't read it. If someone irritates you, put them in the ignore list. If in the midst of a thread you suddenly have a desire to talk to someone about a non related topic, use PM.
and finally. We're all human, and like any family we can get irritated and irritable, affronted and affronting, tired and tired of it. And we have the compassion to be there for each other when the fears set in, when the pain, mental, emotional or physical, gets to be too much, and when we want to cry from relief and from being touched so deeply inside.
thank you family
Nanc
what i have learned as a forum member:
Keep an open mind to others' ideas that challenge you.
When an OP asks a question, they need a sharing of one's experience, not a judgment about the question or warnings about presumed ancillary thoughts. Just answer the question.
When responding to a post, check the date. Some posts get resurrected by a search and may be years old.
When responding to a post, read the whole thing. Many posters with questions or a dilemma, have all ready resolved their problems, when someones comes up with a no-longer- needed sound bite.
Sarcasm, flippancy, and innuendo are very hard to take as intended through so many translations, nationalities and cultures. They don't translate well in print. Just say what you really mean. It will save a lot of apologies.
Do not disregard what you already know about yourself. If you know a larger pack fits your frame, or trail shoes suck, or if you are always cold, do not allow another individual's passion about what worked for them, take you away from your own instincts. Sure give it a try but you don't have to force their solution on yourself.
If you are tried of a thread, just don't read it. If someone irritates you, put them in the ignore list. If in the midst of a thread you suddenly have a desire to talk to someone about a non related topic, use PM.
and finally. We're all human, and like any family we can get irritated and irritable, affronted and affronting, tired and tired of it. And we have the compassion to be there for each other when the fears set in, when the pain, mental, emotional or physical, gets to be too much, and when we want to cry from relief and from being touched so deeply inside.
thank you family
Nanc