It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it.. I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong in my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing.. I came to appreciate that mountains make poor recepticles for dreams. Jon Krakauer
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As the quote above has pointed out, we all make mistakes when we are young because we are filled with passion and we don’t know how to think through our decisions. However, once we get older and become more mature that passion often gets replaced by logic and reason. The fact that mountain climbing did not solve all of his problems for this man is a good example of the fact that passion cannot replace logic.

Source: Into The Wild

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