First time, I was lost and felt terrible too. I kept in touch with pilgrim-friends and planned another camino. I read great books about traveling, through a spiritual/poetical/philosophical perspective. Being busy everyday helped. Time too.
Second time, it was pretty much the same, without planning another camino. I started to think of what was "it" I found so much better on the Way than in "normal" life and became more aware of "it". I tried to see "it" in my "normal" life.
I've worked on that and still do. I'd put it this way... I try to keep the Camino's spirit alive in my heart and to bring it into my "normal" life.
Today, boundaries between "camino life" and "normal life" are not so distinct. I'm always on the Camino somehow, doing my best to keep its spirit alive through the way I am, look around me, act, meet/consider/treat people around me. I feel like I'm never really leaving the Camino. The Camino continues beyond the
camino de Santiago.
Here's some inspiration...
"I will be a pilgrim. I will walk. While walking, the sun will heat my heart of stone, the rains will make of my desert a garden. By dint of wearing out my shoes, I will wear out my habits. I will walk, and my walk will become my path. I will less go to the end of the road than to the end of myself. I will be a pilgrim. I will not only go on a journey, I will become a journey myself, a true pilgrimage."
Jean Debruynne,
Prayer of the Walker
Buen Camino!