Interpretations

Somewhere along the way I must have taken a course that was not on the map. I reached a place on the road that was very unusual and quite frankly this place didn't look so bad. It reminded me of somewhere I had been before, but I couldn't put my finger on when I had been there. The place just appealed to me so much that my mind was telling me to stay. Everything practical within me told me to find my way back to the trail I had mapped out, but my heart for some reason told me I should linger here for a while and see if this would lead me to and alternate route. All down the road I began to feel more and more pleased to have gone in this direction and before I knew it, I realized that I was still on track to my destination. The road was not as well lit during the night and during the day I noticed that there were not as many passersby. In fact there were times that I felt as if I was the only person taking this route.


The things that I saw on this vain of my journey, are things that all the days of my life I shall never forget. The few people that I did meet seemed to be good at heart and kind. The trees that shaded the road were sturdy and strong and the flowers along the roadway were beautiful and filled this stretch of time with color and magnificence. This time in my life was so wonderful that I often hoped I would never step off this path. But eventually it ended and I reached the main road again - I could hear the activity there as I approached it and as if to crawl out of a cocoon I merged from this path back to the main stream. A feeling I am sure the fish in the waters understand - if they have the capacity to understand such things.

Life continued to happen to me after I reached that path as it always does, after all, time stops for no man. Regardless, it is my belief that because I took a chance on that side road my life changed forever. The things that I saw, the things that I did, the things that I was able to see there that were seemingly invisible to me before; made me more aware of what I was supposed to be, more aware of who I am. I guess you could say that if I hadn't taken that path a simpler life I would have led. But I did take that path and now all the days left in my life will be richer days.

The Road Not Taken

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; 5

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, 10

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. 15

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.