Something happened around day five on the Camino. Barely a third of the way through our 300km plus journey and we became pilgrims. I can’t find the tipping point in my memory—it just happened.
Mostly we stopped seeing the Camino as a hike and started to see the journey as a reminder of the importance of accepting life as it comes. Here is some wisdom the Camino has imparted in the last week:
1.) Follow the signs, even if you are not sure where they will take you.
2.) Walk higher than you thought possible yesterday.
3.) Meet lots of people, and always be nice to them (also, everyone loves a selfie—even dairy farmers in the middle of nowhere).
4.) Even when things are dreary, keep going.
5.) Share with people you don’t know...and people you do know.
6.) Eat it, even if it looks yucky, because it probably is amazing.
I suspect we knew all these things already and could have gone manny places in the world to be reminded of these lessons, but the Camino has special powers to make pilgrims.
And so we continue.
Buen Camino.
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