While i do respect other peoples’ ideas and beliefs, i don’t see what the point of a Pilgrimage is. It’s a long walk to find your inner self and or just to exercise. But come on people, if you want to walk for days with no food or water just call the suicide hotline right now and save yourself time. Not only that, but also walking in french routes in the middle of nowhere only to visit a church. So no food or water, and walking for miles in an area with no one but yourself around, to see a church?
Pilgrimages today in my mind are dead beliefs that only the mindless would do (no offence). Walking over 500 miles would take months to finally complete. Some would think that its good exercise to walk 500 miles but in reality all your doing is depriving your muscles and bones from the proper neutrients they need (which you wont be getting because of the lack of food/water). So in conclusion, would I waste months of my life to walk a pilgrimage? The answer is a simple big, fat, NO!
