I’m hiking in order to save myself –
At 22 she lost her mother, in the four years following – everything unravels. Thats why Cheryl Strayed decided to walk the the Pacific Crest Trail.
Strayed’s memoir about the hike, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a fantastic story about transformation and becoming oneself. The movie based on the book, staring Reese Witherspoon, is also good, but one gets a much better sense of time in the text version. And coming to terms with oneself sure can take a lot of time & suffering …
sub rosa 
I, too, loved this book and enjoyed Strayed’s writing. Probably will not see the movie but from everything I’ve read, Witherspoon’s performance is excellent. And you said it, Sigrun: “coming to terms with oneself sure can take a lot of time & suffering …”
Karen
I think I would have found the film excellent had I not already read the book 🙂