I recently gave a talk to a local group about walking the Camino de Santiago - the ancient pilgrim route, 550 miles across Northern Spain.
"Wonderfully inspiring!"
"I felt like I was walking with you."
"Makes me want to get out there!"...
Talking about an adventure makes it all the more worthwhile - sharing tales of struggle that give others a boost in their own lives to go for a challenge, large or small, along their own paths...
Addressing questions like "How do you keep going when things got tough?"
Answered by "For me it's having a big enough reason for doing something - wanting to do it enough..." (eg for love of some-one, or raising money for charity, or for world peace...) The Camino was actually a training for walking to the North Pole!
And people ask "What was the toughest thing and what was the best?"
I answer the same for both... "Facing of self. that's the hardest and also the best. Reaching that point of seeing what I've learnt... how I've grown... and giving meaning to life.
In the case of the Camino it was tackling walking 20 miles a day, non stop for 28 days, carrying a heavy rucksack, living the pilgrim life not knowing where we would sleep and with acutely painful blisters.
But we got to walk the Earth...
meet other pilgrims
and Knights Templars
and doggies who'd walked 1,500 miles
and learn the secrets of the way...
What is waiting for you?
Look for that bridge...
Go for the challenge...
