THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED

November 25, 2006

You see many people often think about what they could or should have done in life, and though I too am guilty of this I've learn to accept that where I am today is due the many decisions I have made in the past. Not every decision has been the wisest, but I'm confident that every thing that happens in life happens for a reason. It is not what I have NOT done that has changed who I am, it's what I HAVE done that has helped me become who I am today. I will continue to look optimistically at the future, knowing that each day holds a new opportunity.

As I experience life I'm often reminded of the poem "The Road Not Taken" written by Robert Frost:

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

And though I'm confident I've passed up many opportunities in life, I see many more which lie ahead and will continue to define who I am. So it's not about "The Road Not Taken", but instead "the road less travelled" which will make all the difference.