Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact name of the Thai cave rescue program. Would love to pass that on to you. And I would love to watch it again but need the title to find it. Can someone help me with that?
As we walked yesterday Dana and I were asking the question, why do we need a crisis to perform at our best? What is that temporary state that happens to us only once in a while? Can we tap into that and be there more often?
I don’t know, big questions that probably need big answers. Ronaldo in a comment yesterday related it to our experience on the Camino. Somehow we had that purity to outperform our “usual” selves. We surprised ourselves and each other by that.
Could it have to do with decluttering? Both situations have a “deck clearing” aspect. We don’t have the burden of all the trivia that normally inhabits our lives. There is one thing that may be bigger than we think.
Then there has to be a need and not only a need but one that has to be addressed immediately or quickly. We were pretty needy the whole time on the Camino from what I remember. We had to help each other when our self-help ran out which it seemed to do daily. Desperation is present.
Being in this groove with others offers a high, a high state, where we seem to feed on each other’s energy. There is that! It is rare but we know it when we see it and jump on it if we can. Am I right?
Just a few thoughts to pass the time. A gray morning here with a little wind out of the north and the leaves are falling one by one. Thanks for stopping by loves, Felipé.
Hi Boss,
Could it be this link? https://www.pbs.org/video/thai-cave-rescue-81uvb5/ (I searched “Thai Cave Rescue PBS” and this link appeared, but cannot guarantee it is what you watched because it is forbidden here for rights reasons.
Cris
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Yes, Cris that is it. Thank you for checking. Maybe it will have to wait til you get in the States again for you to watch it. Is the DVD format the same in Argentina and US? If I send a DVD to you could you watch it? Felipe.x
Now, Dear Felipe,
I loved this question Dana and you discussed while walking, and yours and Ronaldo’s thoughts.
I had this thought a couple times: do we perform better when we are in these “brought-to-our-knees” situations or is it that those situations aren’t resolve by our usual skills and we need to appeal to the forgotten tool-box we count with but almost never go to? We are the same self, right? Definitely, in those situations, one of the options is to sit and cry, and the other is to go on living with dignity. How we do the second is the question… and once thing I read from Richard Rohr was that unless we are brought to these situations of powerlessness -which is never chosen voluntarily, always rather pushed on us-, we would never accept that we cannot continue performing in the same way we were doing before, and expect a resolution. This is why when we are brought to our knees, it is merely accepting we cannot do it, -for some of us, it means we cannot do it by ourselves, and there is where faith comes to play a role; but it also means to reach out to others, as we did in the Camino.
As Ronaldo said, and I experienced myself, in the Camino it doesn’t matter “what” you are at home or the size of your bank account or your house, you still have to walk the same amount of km as everybody else, and that for me is the powerful thing, there is a very simple experience where life is fair to all of us, and whatever we are going through in our own body, soul, mind, heart, -you name it-, affects us equally, and the way to a resolution is a walking path, that we have to walk, cannot be skipped, and will bring blisters and tiredness to our selves, no matter the image we -or others- have of us “at home” (aka “our comfort zones”).
Just my usual non-succinct 2 cents love,
Cris
Dear Non-Succint ~ thank you so much, a thing of beauty. I’m copying it over to today’s blogpost. More soon, Felipe.x
Disclaimer: I have found that I don’t see the world like most ‘normal’ folks do.
My distllation of the reasons that the ‘Camino provides’ includes these factors AND the additive magic when these things are playing in the same sandbox:
Lack of competition between pilgrims (some may notice others are walking faster or farther each day, but after a few days that goes away.)
Focus on commonality (sleeping in a room full of strangers, for example, breaks down age, gender, language, ethnicity, etc. and allows us to focus on sleeping, the common need.)
Once the oxitocin starts flowing it becomes addictive to have love flow through you. It also masks pain, and for me causes my nose to run. Sometimes it migrates to my tear ducts too.
Eating together is another layer that I need to write a book about. Don’t you want to go have a long meal with strangers? I bet you didn’t before you walked the Camino. There is a reason that The Last Supper was featured in God’s message to us instead of The Last Scrabble Game.
What features of our journey made a difference for your understanding of the world?
Ron,
The congestive tear ducts was also something I experienced… I haven’t thought on the biochemical explanation despite my medical background, but it does make sense!
And the dinner thing, yes please! write a book about it! I miss going out to dinner and end in a table with 5 or 11 others, and leave with my heart as full as my belly!
Fellows love,
Cris