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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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