Meaningful Passage “A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.” (Into the Wild) Explanation This passage is meaningful because it is essentially saying just to let everything else go and focus on one certain topic, one certain act, one certain task. When there is something to be done, toss everything else to the side, and just focus on doing what you have to do. When you are able to focus on one certain thing, the final vision becomes easier to see. Your dreams and aspirations begin to come into reach. The climb becomes eater, the path becomes clearer, and it will be all yours. This passage gives me hope, that no matter how massive my tasks are, if I can manage to put them aside, I can complete them all one by one. Everything will begin to come into reach.