When a huge part of what gave your life happiness and inspiration it causes everything you do, see, and feel to lose its' meaning. Life feels as though it slows down, it is not longer whirl wind of events that fly by because you are enjoying them so much. Everything becomes its own separate event that you have to get through to get to the next thing. You cannot possible imagine being happy again anytime in the future so you no longer plan long term, you take life one day one task at a time. The main character has to remain focused on simply putting one foot in front of the other, he takes one step at a time. Clouds are just that, clouds; he no longer sees the wonder behind in them in millions of possibles shapes and creatures they can take. This simple staircase depicts how the main character is moving through his life, one step at a time. Slowly, but surely making progress in a direction he has not control over nor does he care what it is. These stairs have only one direction, up and forward just like his life. Every step is the same, and it is just that-a step; nothing meaningful or special behind any one of them.
Stephen King, Bag of Bones (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), page 223
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