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I'm from Alicante
I'm from Madrid but I live in Alicante
We have walked before by the Road to Santiago
The basis of the experience is walking by the Road, but what we actually found here is the love of people.
It is something you can feel here. We walked with a deaf-mute girl who travels alone and who wants to get to Finisterre
It is really hard for her! But you may find here people that despite their many problems are able to treat you as a brother
We are like a big family
It's a wonderful experience
because there is a common language to all the people who walk by the Road to Santiago that touches you deep inside:
it is the love of people
Many times we are not able to understand somebody
but just gesturing is enough because the will of understanding. And it is there from where an incredible strength pours
Many people walk to Santiago because of religious reasons
or maybe they have promised to go there in order to allow a serious problem to be solved
but what you discover when doing it is your own human being that our present way of life in our cities does not allow to come out
The Road is a personal fight against suffering and pain
but our engine is love and faith in ourselves
If every person who completes the Road to Santiago
acts as we do here when returning home the world would become heaven
The first time you come here you are astonished
And when you leave the Road you are back to reality
Such an experience is this! This is the second time we come
And each time is a different experience.
my holidays I have decided to work in a shelter, helping the pilgrims
taking care of their wounds or serving meals selflessly. I have to pay for my expenses.
Just embracing people help them enormously
In fact, I have experienced that help and it is priceless
The price is just your own personal reward helping people
And this can also be done at all levels
From your own neighborhood or city you can also act this way
On the Road you may also know the people from the villages
Yesterday we met a 68 years old lady who showed us her farm and introduced us to her family
She had always lived by the country
You can exchange experiences with the local people, people with a different way of life
They offer you all they have, but we also give to them what we have
There was a lady who was gloomy and we help her just embracing her
At the end of the day you acquire your cultural knowledge from people of different generations
and here you learn as in a university
I have met people from Bermudas, Oklahoma, and so many countries
. And from the exchange with them you acquire knowledge and you are enriched
Instead of reading a book you learn by experiencing feelings and meeting people
We are always crying, we are crybabies because of all these feelings
But that's really good!