prolog

Part 1: Just Go With the Flow

Doing what you love
Let the water flow
The distance between ideal and reality
Möbius strip
Dream deadline
small container
You only live once
road
Thanks for getting bored easily
The direction your heart desires
To become good at something you hate
The law of maximum aggregate limit + the law of doubling
The time when a slump comes
Easily
How to not regret
Sometimes you need to make a decision
Because there is a goal to reach
Envy
Sometimes
Between reality and ideal
There is no time that does not pass.
As if it's always been like this
If you don't have teeth, use your gums
As it has been so far
The motto is 'Let's buy and suffer'
Desperation
Freedom to me
Time will tell

Part 2: Walking at my own pace

yellow arrow
On the road called life
If you go up a little more, you'll reach the top.
The word rest
Everyone has a turning point.
Nine Pilgrimages to Santiago
A grateful life
Santiago is not the end, but another beginning
One way
A simple day's work
It's okay if it's a little slow
A place I miss
Nine reasons to continue on the Camino de Santiago
Gravestones and signs
Various paths
The Law of Rest
It's love
A letter to you
Because you only live once
A perfectly ordinary day in Santiago
Walking at your own pace
The Camino de Santiago is a book that contains our lives.
The result of repetition
The End of the World, Fisterra
Arrow of Life

Part 3: The Thrills of Life

Everyone faces slumps.
Start of the day
a strand of thread
Carpe diem
Life doesn't always go as planned
Four years of returning to the countryside
The importance of the environment
Rich in heart
The path your heart leads you to
Time not wasted
It's never too late to find something you love and are good at.
Painful times too
How to stop time
A life that thinks about death
How I Change the World
Don't touch the floor
Practice returning to the beginning
It'll only take a little while
It's good that I have a bad memory
Passing by
How to make your dreams come true
Because real life starts now
You have to experience it to know
Even if it's something small
What's a good age to start something? 216
Adversity is an opportunity to plant deep roots to weather the storm.
full stop
A light illuminating the present
start

Part 4 Happiness is not far away

magic spell
My person
The most difficult thing
I like that kind of person
Love is like another journey
Time to close the window
Me, my most reliable friend
knot of the heart
companion
Always on my side
Best experience
More important things
That kind of day
three
A resting place for the mind
Classes to become happy

The 9th Camino de Santiago: Walking Life's Path at Your Own Pace

When I was in college, I read a book by Paulo Coyello about a protagonist who goes on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and I vaguely decided that I would go on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela someday.
From then on, I was busy with my college life, part-time job, and work life, but I only dreamed of it, so I quit my job and decided to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago.
The airfare was barely scraped together by making and selling ceramic accessories all night.
He decided to cover the remaining expenses by selling pottery during the pilgrimage, and thus set out on his first pilgrimage to Santiago.


Although I had to endure tremendous physical pain because I was too busy preparing for the expenses to prepare the essential physical strength, I was able to put aside my anxieties and worries about the future and enjoy the joy that comes from the simplicity of just focusing on walking.
Although I didn't have the financial or time resources, I have completed the Camino de Santiago nine times so far.
In this way, the pilgrimage to Santiago became an inseparable companion in the author's life.


Yellow arrows along the pilgrimage route show you the right way.
If you just follow the arrows, you won't get lost.
It would be nice if we had arrows like this in our lives, but unfortunately, we don't have arrows to show us the direction.
Instead, you have your own goals and dreams.
Just follow those goals and dreams as arrows.


As you walk the pilgrimage route, your body signals you to take a short break.
If there's a cafe nearby, I go in, but when there isn't, I just sit on the street and eat the food I brought and take a break.
In Santiago, you decide your own walking pace and distance.
Just walk towards your destination at your own pace.
Life is the same.
Don't ignore the signals to rest, and don't feel anxious or sad if someone gets ahead of you.
You just have to go your own way, slowly, at your own pace.
In this way, the pilgrimage to Santiago is similar to the journey of life.


Walking the Camino de Santiago, you can experience in a nutshell what you have learned over the decades of your life: joy, sharing, and even sorrow.
Through his pilgrimage, the author came to realize the value of life that cannot be converted into anything else.

I want to be healthier than usual because I have to walk for a month carrying a backpack.
The habit of discarding and emptying things acquired to reduce the weight of the backpack.
Perseverance and patience to endure difficult times day after day.
Accepting the absence of thoughts and feelings.

A simple daily life that distances itself from the everyday.
The fact that life doesn't require as much as you think.
Interacting with people from all over the world, something that is not easy to do normally.
Meeting and talking with good people who share similar values.
A great opportunity to improve your foreign language skills by talking with foreign friends.
Realizing my limitations and finding the right level.
The pink-purple sky at sunrise and the glow of the sunset.
My favorite tortillas and other foods from the pilgrimage route.
Healthy enough to walk all day and eat as much as you want without gaining weight.
A feeling of gratitude for the little things, like the happiness of resting after washing up after a day's walk.
A healthy mind that can humbly accept anything.
Precious things that cannot be obtained easily, but can only be obtained through hardship.
Above all, a place where I can truly face myself.
While walking this path, you will experience the basics of food, clothing, shelter, eating, sleeping, clothing, meeting and parting with people, love, friendship, human relationships, wounds, pain,

This path of asceticism is always the same, but different times, different temperatures, different people, and different circumstances make this path new.
The path of life is also the same for everyone, but depending on how you walk it, it will become a new and different path.


Four years of rural life taught me the beauty of nature and its value in the present.

Life doesn't always go as you wish.
Naemyeon, Gangwon-do, located in the mountains 700 meters above sea level, where I was driven out of the city and ended up alone.
That is how the new path of returning to the countryside, found in the midst of despair, began.
However, during the four years I lived in the countryside, I had time to reflect on the convenience and comfort I had taken for granted.
In the winter, the heating doesn't work properly, so you have to wash your face with cold water, and it's hard to get what you need right away, let alone get it delivered. There's only one bus a day, and if something breaks down or goes wrong at home, you have to fix it yourself.
There are so many bugs that spiders are just friends.
But the night sky was full of stars, with a gentle green breeze, the sound of insects and the sound of a stream.
Countless days when the Milky Way filled my eyes.
Living in harmony with nature gives our weary souls breathing space and allows us to find leisure.


Escaping the intense and demanding life in the city and spending time in harmony with nature, I rediscovered a sense of leisure I had never felt before and many things I had overlooked in my busy life.
Living in the countryside, which taught me the beauty of nature and the value of the present rather than its inconveniences, became an opportunity for me to grow further.


Cheers to a life you love the most

Is there any time that is not wasted?
All 4,000 ceramic carnations made overnight over the course of six months were thrown away overnight.
Because the 4,001st piece of pottery I made was my favorite.
The more you cook, the tastier it gets. The more you make dumplings, the prettier they become. The more you draw, the better you become.
The more I made the porcelain carnations, the more beautiful they became.
It was never easy to throw away something that had been created with so much blood, sweat, and toil, but that time didn't disappear entirely.
Because I was able to achieve the result I liked the most.


Life is the same.
Just as I found the 4,001st ceramic carnation I liked, we too may have to face countless trials and setbacks to live the life we ​​want.
Because of the trials and frustrations we have overcome, we can get one step closer to our goals and dreams.
There is never any time wasted.
Although it may only start from the 4,001st, it will be a powerful force from then on.
If we've worked our butts off and the results aren't satisfactory, leaving us feeling drained and discouraged, it might be because we haven't reached the 4,001st level yet.
If you challenge yourself to achieve your dreams and don't lose your motivation, you will definitely live the life you want.