我的朝圣之路

In 2013*=, an Au
=#stra/lian man a few months shy of _-(turni(!ng 60 de-cided to *;`@walk the (Camino de -$`,Santia.`[go – `?an 8 \00[km :*pilgrimage [tr?#-a%il:) ac ^ross t_he#( top ?of Spain. He had#! no kn@own ^`religi. on, and a
,bsolutely no id=]*]ea why he felt :*_so deeply%? c/*ompell_
ed to d?
o this tor[%+tu [rous walk.　　Bu#( t c

#)ompel*]led, he w@as.　　He( comple]%-[=ted t /he walk, battling(* a “tri/[umvirate of p,ain” -$- a kn?ee that he #l+.at#[er disc`o@ vered l@@$acked any meaningful cartila+g+e,;% a blist er the sig@ht of wh,=ich w=ould ma-;ke a grow)
n :man _=[wee]p, #_and`; s+=hin-sorenes=s that \^felt like =_!h!$i#s #l/@/owe\r ,limb=,+^ had been split ]=with a= moun.ta;_in
%axe wie @,lde-.-d b`/y a-_* d+=#emented ,troll`*`-.　　Arriving /]#=at the end of the Cami-+no, the majes_]_ tic( cat ^h/edral in ]S* //antiago de Compostela, he expec]$ted an epiphany – an an-!@swer t -o \;[th, (e; [ q _+u+/esti
o^n h++e’d bee^n asking= (;^ him*se=\lf eve[ (ry
^ day: Why am I doing ,[?this?　　But no a$
nswe[(r ,:came.　　So when ;%.he got home he wrote @a =]!;book, hoping t%*he answer woul!#d re #veal it*s$`elf @in hi%s scribblings.=\( [/%Th. @e result was T@he
Way, My) Way, a humourous an)%d =self-dep= !recating/@ book t)/hat many consi(+-der the be+st mem#%#oir  ever wri%#!tt en :_`on walking:![ the Camino.　　The book has now .^been-; :. made ]in]to,_ a fi--lm, and it’s an extraordina!ry account of a man at a p(#ivotal point in hi*s life;[, searching )\for meaning and finding himse?l?f undergoin^)g a +*`f]@undamental transformation so profo)+und that he =now divi -des his _:%life into
“Be)for+)e the Camino” and “After the Cam^(ino.#”　　It’s a s^tor`y p*articular to one man, ye t of
appeal to/.$ anyone seeking a.` greater mean+ing from life.