In 2013, + =an ^((Australian ) man a few months[%] shy]% of turning!+) 60 d+?eci$^^ded to wa:lk t,he% C=@
amin !o d\-e Santi
ago – an 800_(#km pi\lgrimag@$e  trail a*):/cross the top of
Spain. He had no known re$ligion, =:an]$\)d %#*ab % )+s*[,olutely no `[ idea why he felt s@=(o deepl)+y compel`+led[^ -.to do this torturous walk.　　B ut compelled, he was.　　He completed the walk, b*attl,ing a “/;triumvirate `\of pain”$#- !]- a kne/,#e that \_he later di% s c_*overed
 lack#ed any $`me %[a=
=ningful c!,arti lage, a blister t_$he $sight -of whic:)\?h would: make a grown /^)/ma+n weep, an`^d !@[s?^?)h,_in-soreness that% /#,f+!elt  lik*e_%\  h: is low /er ^+limb*\ [_had been spli;t wi(,th[ a m
.*oun;ta ``in a#)#x e wi+%elded
\ by a d\ em[!ent/ ed troll.　　_ Arriving at the end:+ of t;he Ca
mino, )the maj(`estic ca,+
t,he(.)d \+ral ];in Santiago de Compost@ela,@ h?e =%expected? an epiphan]y – a`.*n answer\) to the questio%[n he’d been asking himself every=$@ day: Why am I d!oing th#/` #i\s?　　But]=- n+[o an.swer came.　　So *(when he got ho;(-me he wrote a book, hoping the a`[nswer would reveal itself$ in his scribblings. T+?h]\$ e` result !\was Th]e Way_], -My Way, a hum\[ourous(# an*=d se[@l?f-deprecating book tha+t many cons\ider the !:,$best memoir ever written !,on walking the Camino,*.　　The.$^ book has n(:-](ow been made into a fil
$m, and it’s an extraor@d[$i!(/nary accoun@,t!; of a m^ an at$^/ a pivota]l poin[t? in h*);is= life, s#)earch\(ing for m
e-@aning a?nd fi;ndi+ng%)*, him+s]#elf undergoing a fundamental transformatio[*\n s+o p /ro= ^ found ]that )he now di!v;/(ides his* life into “Before _`/th@;e C*amino:” a-@nd “After the Camin-o.”　　It’s a\[ story part ^icu]!l%-a*@(\r to one m$an, y^e+*t  of a_ppeal ^? =t,)\o an\.:y$ one^ seek-[ing a$
= gr#]eater meaning from life.