I've already mentioned a big change since walking the Camino – I no longer need glasses.
But I've also noticed little changes.
Since coming back, I now keep my mobile phone on silent. I can't handle hearing it ring. And if I miss a call because I haven't heard it, I don't care. I used to obsessively respond to my phone. Not anymore.
I don't do Facebook anymore, either. Not like before.
Before the Camino, I'd have posted at least four to six times a day. Since returning, I've posted perhaps maybe six times in five weeks. It seems folly now. And ego driven.
Also, I used to always put the alarm on at night. The house is securely locked, but still I would always arm the security alarm. Not anymore.
Personal grooming – I used to use moisturiser each day. Didn't on the camino. Haven't since. And I still haven't put a battery in my razor.
Little changes. They actually mean big things…
PGS - The Way 
Most excellent.
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Oh Bill, what can i say. You are liberating yourself from the Old Bill. I can’t wait to see what happens to you after your second camino!
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You’re so right, Bill. The “little”things flake off to reveal the new person underneath. Its wonderful that you are tuned into yourself so much that you are aware them!
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you sound happier , lighter and free .
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Marie, I am!
And less fearful. Nothing worries me anymore!
Bill
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You sound like Alfred E. Newman of “MADD” magazine fame. “What, Me Worry?”
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Haha – as you were writing this, I was posting #15+ – nothing scares me!
Bill
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One day you just might put a blade in your razor as you think about all the waste of using disposables;-) Sometimes simplicity turns out to be less straightforward.
BUT BUT BUT I applaud the decision you are making and the changes you are allowing to occur.
Have you read “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”? I just read it this week and kept thinking of you (not that you are like him or the story is anything like yours – maybe it was the transformation)
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Hi Rachel, I’m not using disposable razors, for that very reason – using a razor though that can take a battery.
I’ll check out that book!
Bill
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You already know it’s not really about the razor…it was more an excuse to tell you about the book! BTW, I’ll be taking a disposable razor on my next Camino;-)
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Haha – cool!
bb
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Disposable razors are definitely lighter!
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I have a beard instead, now — so I just use scissors to trim it !!!
(but then I simply don’t like the way I look clean-shaven)
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