The Road Not Taken

The new year is a time of reflection for me. I'm not sure if its because the year has changed or that I'll be another year older in January, but I always think back on my life and my choices. I wonder if I made the right decisions and what I could have or should have done differently.

Life is all about choices. In high school, I learned a great poem about making decisions. It's called the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. It speaks to me when I'm not sure if I should try something new or stay in my comfort zone. Perhaps it will speak to you as well.

The Road Not Taken

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.