Moderator Tobias Schlegl was hiking on the Jakobsweg with his mother. That has changed for him
Tobias Schlegl is No hiking freak And yet he hiked with his mother for 40 days and over 700 kilometers on the Jakobsweg. Why does he do that? He did it for his mother and he didn’t regret it. Because The Jakobsweg Both brought both of them to their limits and sometimes beyond, but he also ensured new trust between mother and son.
The emergency paramedic quickly Tobias Schlegl find out that this long hike becomes more challenging than he thought. The overnight stays in overcrowded and less hospitable hostels contribute to this as well as the weather and the directions. But also changes your own mood.
« The Jakobsweg produces extreme mood swings »
If the one day gives a mood high, the start in the next can be accompanied by a bad mood: « The Camino provokes extreme mood swings. What does my chatter from yesterday care? … Everything is ambivalent, like the route a big wave movement. »
Sometimes mother and son are as close as they have not been for decades, then they argue again over little things. Sometimes you have the feeling that the way makes people friendly and facing, then you feel missing again. It is a change of feelings that Tobias Schlegl describes as honestly as possible. And yet the positive mood predominates, the gratitude for a new experience:
There were also euphoric moments for Tobias Schlegl
« The feeling that makes me smile is difficult to describe. A tickle, a tingling, a pinch of euphoria. There is nothing better for me than at seven in the morning.
What Tobias Schlegl is planning after the Jakobsweg
Of course, the euphoria does not last long, but Tobias Schlegl knows that he takes something from this way. Not only a new picture of his mother, a new closeness, but also a new certainty: « Whenever you think it doesn’t go on, something is unexpectedly good on this way. We can all achieve more than we think. This is exactly what we feel. »
With his easy -to -read travel report, Tobias Schlegl wants to encourage parents and children to do more together again to make their way. It doesn’t necessarily have to Camino be.
Tobias Schlegl. Light heart and heavy legs. Piper, 224 pages, 18 euros
