can not explain with words. Arriving in Santiago you invade a mixed feeling of sorrow, joy and emotion do not know how it is that you can be sad and happy at once, but it is.
Santiago is already there, after so many miles of penance, and you can see the towers of the cathedral in the distance and then makes you skin chicken and tightens the lump in her throat and has not stopped since we saw in the way a stone reading "Santiago."
crosses a street and another with an illusion that you do not know how to express, quickly looking around corners to see if there's the cathedral. Until finally arrives ...
And see there, in all its splendor, is a cathedral made for the pilgrims, for people like you who one day decided to go several hundred miles behind now lost somewhere be the hero and go with a heavy heart in the main square of Obradoiro.
ground And I do not mourn, in fact few people have seen me and rarely do I have, but when I crossed the arch that leads to the cathedral, I dropped a crybaby.
Because then you know you're a special person in this world, you know you have to do something big, something important, that all this will not remain impassive behind your steps. And it matters little to give you a paper with your name in Latin to frame on the wall, no matter where go free, to embrace the holy and invite you to lunch or a discounted plane ticket back home. Who else want to cuddle is that girl who does not understand a word of English and met for three days, or the man who could well be your father and with whom you have laughed as much as a day of partying with your best friends or people who wear in the early stages and now returns to find outside the cathedral because the destination does not want us to see them again until today, or those kids who live in your same city and only hundreds of people in your neighborhood were going to meet them for are now friends.
Now you're all done, you're a new person, renewed, the world will never see it again with the same eyes and know that you will return one day to cross the same path that brought you here. When you have a problem you will come to Santiago Mayor Pilgrim and he was already responsible for ensuring that your steps in life follow the same path that one day you brought from a remote village who did not know existed until the place where so many have traveled and so many dreams.
now you know that yes, indeed, that 'everything is true ... and Santiago Mayor Pilgrim has a follower ...
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