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‘Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

 Miguel de Cervantes

Can we ever get too much of the Camino de Santiago to the extent that it ultimately becomes damaging or unpleasant to us and/or those around us?

Might ‘Caminitis’ exist where we keep going back to the Camino to receive a golden ‘elixir’; yet we find it is simply a quick ‘fix’ as the moment we get home it disappears and the urge to return to the Camino emerges once more?

We live in a world of duality.  The joys of pilgrimage are often spoken about but what about the shadow side of the journey?  What did you see/experience on your Camino(s)?  Perhaps you found the Camino space to be:

• where you felt most at ‘home’ in life;  an easy place to meet people and to be sociable and where you felt alive, heard and witnessed.  To end the Camino means to leave this way of being behind.

• the only place where you felt you had a sense of purpose and direction each day

• very crowded leading to loss of simplicity and the ‘freedom to be’ as ‘group think’ and the ‘power’ of the collective took over

• a place of real freedom allowing you to totally step out of character.  Released from social ties, and knowing that nobody who knows you was watching, you:

  • ‘Stabbed’ a fellow pilgrim in the middle of the night with your walking pole to stop them snoring, injuring them enough for an ambulance to be called

  • Found your ‘soulmate’ yet there was a significant other back home

  • Dropped your trousers and pooed in the middle of the Camino path as pilgrims walked by

  • Began a loud and very ‘short-lived’ conversation on your cell phone at 2am in a crowded albergue

  • Lightened your backpack by leaving your sleeping bag hanging over a wire fence alongside the N120 carretera.?

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