The Less Traveled Road...

I spoke about crossroads in my entry dated 11 Mar 07.
On a poetic scale, I found this poem by Robert Frost and it seem to capture something of that crossroads moment in my life. Here it is:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, I stood
And looked down one as far a 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 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.

(From: The Poetry of Robert Frost, 1969)

William Bennett, former US Secretary of Education, summarized this poem in a single statement when he said, “Courage does not follow rutted pathways.”
May you find your own trail in life and set that path aflame with passion.
For me, I will blaze my own!