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’Didn’t the Italians snore like hell last night?’, I say to the priest.

‘Yes. There was a point during the night when I was very close to getting up and going over to punch one of them.  Before I became a priest, I wasn’t a particularly good boy’, he replies.

If there’s one lesson to be reminded of by walking the Camino de Santiago, might it be that ‘the only constant in life is change’?  Yet, paradoxically, within each of us there are parts that resist change because it challenges our sense of security, the routine we have become used to and the capacity we have to control our lives. To resist change means we can get stuck in the ‘old’ as life inevitably moves forward.

The act of putting one foot in front of another reveals the importance of ‘non-attachment’: allowing things to naturally flow as they must – to fully ‘detach’ from what was once present to ‘attach’ to what temporarily is now present.  

What was your experience of ‘detachment’ and ‘attachment’ on the Camino?  Perhaps you:

• Enjoyed a fantastic, but fleeting, conversation with a pilgrim and hoped to meet them again

• Lost something of value only to find it in the depths of your backpack at the end of the Camino

• Found inner ‘silence’ in the midst of raucous snoring

• Felt ‘home-sick’ as you began your Camino but felt at ‘home’ by its end

• Sensed a ‘new you’ forming as the ‘old you’ fully embraced the pilgrim lifestyle

• Carried things in your backpack for every ‘fearful’ eventuality and found none of them were required.

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