Cheryl Strayed pushed herself to become a better person. She doesn't want to fall back into drugs and loneliness. She was being influenced by the bad things happening in her life, her bad choices and she had to live with the consequences. Strayed is in the correct path because she is changing for the better by taking an initiative on hiking the PCT. Instead of living in her old life and doing the same things she will be able to to move on and think about the mistakes that she made to try to better herself. She wants to do this journey alone, and because of her choices she divorces her husband,” … It's all my fault… He didn't do anything. I'm the one. I broke my own heart” (Strayed 118). .She will clear her mind on the PCT, she will learn to
