Santiago (part 2)
The following was written last week's Tuesday night (before I left to finisterra) ...
As time passes people are starting to leave and go home to thier subversive lives that each and every one had before starting walking Camino de Santiago. It's Tuesday night and the only people still left from a very long list of people that became my friends for life can be counted on 1 hand and even they will be leaving in the next few days. It's sad when something special ends. It's harder when something unique ends. It's hard to grasp when the memories, feelings, experiences that I passed in the month and half can't be put in a just a few words. Shirley MacLaine and Paulo Cuelo wrote a book about it (I won't). T (Belguim) asked me a question: Will I recommend it to others. My answer: Yes, but the 1st time has to be done alone, because than you are alone and exposed to the coltural micro cosmos that has developped around it.
Along the camino the subject of the camino, the reason for doing it, what feelings have developped and what was learned was often the main topic of a conversation. Obviously the answers are different and diverse as the number of poeople talking about it :)
All the people I met on the way either did it more than once or said that they will do it again. Obviously each time will be different from the previous/next ones but the colture of the camino won't change a lot. Hopefully.
As time passes people are starting to leave and go home to thier subversive lives that each and every one had before starting walking Camino de Santiago. It's Tuesday night and the only people still left from a very long list of people that became my friends for life can be counted on 1 hand and even they will be leaving in the next few days. It's sad when something special ends. It's harder when something unique ends. It's hard to grasp when the memories, feelings, experiences that I passed in the month and half can't be put in a just a few words. Shirley MacLaine and Paulo Cuelo wrote a book about it (I won't). T (Belguim) asked me a question: Will I recommend it to others. My answer: Yes, but the 1st time has to be done alone, because than you are alone and exposed to the coltural micro cosmos that has developped around it.
Along the camino the subject of the camino, the reason for doing it, what feelings have developped and what was learned was often the main topic of a conversation. Obviously the answers are different and diverse as the number of poeople talking about it :)
All the people I met on the way either did it more than once or said that they will do it again. Obviously each time will be different from the previous/next ones but the colture of the camino won't change a lot. Hopefully.
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