Go

For me to do the Road has meant many things, but if I had to point out the most revealing would be that of the reencounter with the power to walk.

Andar returns us to our essential condition, that of being human beings. We're designed to walk. We learned it at our youngest age and our parents wanted us to do it, as an indication that we were developing properly. Our way of dealing with the environment was assimilating differently when we started walking. We integrated the distances from our steps.

Until something or someone showed us that there were ways to go from here to there that would accelerate our displacements.

The Way taught me very soon that I had lost the real vision of my abilities. And especially to walk and recognize my relationship to distances. I noticed on my first path.

It was going well tomorrow in my second stage and on the first stretch I started walking by a car. On that stretch there was a road sign that announced the destination to which I went that day and indicated that it was 21 km away.

I realized in the act that that distance was the same for me as for cars that passed fast on the road. For cars it was almost to reach destination and for me it was the beginning of an entire stage of the Way.

Maybe it was obvious, but it was revealing to me. On my way to the destination shortly after noon. The cars were already coming.

The contrast seemed so significant to me that a smile and a deep sense of peace emerged in me: the Way had become present within me and has not ceased to be there.