What for?
When I started walking the “Strange Road to Santiago”, as Paulo Coelho calls the Camino de Santiago in the book – The Pilgrimage, I was fixated on the distances; “I’ve already done 27, 100, 200, 300km… there’s less and less to walk, I’m getting each day nearer to Santiago! Great!”
My “what for”, when I started the Camino, was to get to Santiago de Compostela the fastest I could, my what for was in the future, outside of me… As I normally say, in la-la land. Probably making me somehow distracted, "losing" what was happening closer to me.
As the days passed by I was dreading the day that I would have to put an end to my initiatory journey at the Camino. A shift happened. I found out that my “what for” had changed, as my true joy was being in the present moment; walking, talking with my fellow pilgrims, contemplating, being in harmony with the beautiful Nature around me, allowing inner transmutation, connecting with bliss…
