When walking the Camino we walk on many paths. Some are smooth and level and easy.. Some are rough and rocky and not so easy. Some vary in the type of surface and you have to choose which part of the path you will walk on.
Some seem to go on forever and you see no end.
Some have twist and turns and long periods of uphill which could go on for hours. These are often followed by periods of downhill walking , which most walkers would agree are more difficult than the uphill stretches.
Sometimes you walk through near deserted villages and wonder about their past history.
Sometimes you are completely on your own--- or are you/? Millions have walked before you during the last thousand years and have they left something of their souls behind?
But as you walk it is very important to know where you are going and that you keep on the correct path.
The path may sometomes be long and straight and not too far from everyday life(note the motorway to the left)
But you are often left with your thoughts
Your thoughts of life and the paths that you have taken. On the Camino you have often to watch each step that you take. You can be concious of the fact that as you choose the easy part of a path you may be forcing peeople who are overtaking you to take the more difficult path. Life is like that, isn't it? In work, in a relationship, when you choose the easy path, someone else has to take the more difficult one
But whatever path you take, it always leads somewhere.
In my case it lead to Finisstera, to the sea, to where a thousand years ago pilgrims thought the were at "the end of the earth"
Is this the end for me or is it the beginning?
