After that discouraging day of travel, things only went up. Forcing
myself to be adventurous, I went to my complimentary breakfast and ate the best
croissant of my life alone and then went to explore the town of Alibr. In order
to get to Albir you have to walk down this tragically beautiful run down alley
that goes through little farms and orange groves. Its beauty began to lift my
spirits.
In town I kept myself busy that way I didn’t have to return
to the hotel and become a recluse. First I want to an empty park (excluding the
gardener) and read, then I visited the beach where I was mesmerized by it’s
clear blue waters and the smooth white stones that littered the ground instead
of sand, after I ventured inland where I ate at a little café and people watched.
Though it wasn’t a very riveting day, it was nice and much needed after the
hectic one I had had before.
The next day I was surprised by how great I was feeling and
decided to go on (what should have been) a two-hour round-trip hike to the
Camino El Faro. The beauty I saw that day was unbelievable, it was everything I
hoped to see in Spain and more.
During the hike I met this really nice Norwegian lady with
blue eyeliner who told me about her homeland and the history of the Camino El Faro.
She was so sweet and gave me all the encouragement I needed to get through this
upcoming adventure.
The lighthouse itself was really nothing special, but the view
showed so much beauty off of the path that I decided to off road it during my
journey back.
Finding a small clearing far enough from the other tourists,
I decided to be rather hippie and lay down the many scarfs and coats I had
brought with me and made a bed. Lying in the heat of the sun I put in my ear
buds and began a meditation body scan. Giving in to the now, I escaped reality
and become one with nature. The birds chirping around me just added to the
magical effect the meditation brought and when it was over I felt as though I
had been born again.
As I finished the rest of my hike through the Camino El Faro
I began to notices the changes in my body, but more than that I noticed a
change in me. As I walked back to civilization and looked around me, I wanted
to cry because in that moment I had fallen in love with nature. There was
nothing more beautiful in the world than earth itself and I finally felt at one
with it. No longer did I wonder what people were doing back home or what my
future was going to be like. Instead I wondered who else had walked these paths
and if trees could talk what would stories would they have. Yes they were all
silly childish thoughts but for my first time ever I stayed in the present even
after I came out of a mediation or a yoga class. For the first time I felt at
one with myself.
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