She is a Department of Education student, worries about career after graduation that triggered off her pilgrimage walk. Although she has studied with the aim to be a teacher, now some hesitation feeling has occurred in her mind because she had heard a lot of stories about its hard work.
She couldn’t tell her distress even to her school friends, though finally she confided it to a duo that she met when she finished went around the third Fudasho Konsen-ji. They were twenty-year-old, same as she, had come from Kanto to Shikoku for pilgrimage. When she walked together with them for a few days, She told that she is wondering whether become a teacher. Then they two said,
"Why you are oppressing is you are progressing toward the dream."
The encouragement words changed her values and way to receive matters radically. Her mind had become easier, and tears had run down her cheek. In her diary of the day, such a strong sentence of determination; “I thought I want to become a teacher” has been written. She might continue walking toward the dream to be a teacher.
Pilgrimage accepts us with any mind. It is no problem to start it with sudden impulse such like "Gonna try pilgrimage so that I’m troubled." Whatever the reason is, the answer might be found on your journey.
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