THE ROAD NOT TAKEN.....

Tonight, a new class started.."Relapse Prevention and co-occurring Disorders"  interesting, yet lots to learn!..One thing that was very interesting to really listen to and try to completely understand a  very popular poem by Robert Frost...The Road Not Taken.  I think it's worth sharing ...

 

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 theat 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 marked 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.

 

 

 

Once the poem was read, as a class and as individuals, we shared our feelings and thoughts on what we felt the poem was saying.  Throughout life, many choices have to be made.  This poem may describe the process of an individual having to make a decision in life, not knowing at that very moment if the decision will be the right one, and surely to second guess the decision sometime later in life.  It doesnt matter, regardless of the decision, it is a decision made, that has played a part in what that individual is today.  I'm not sure this is what Robert Frost intended to say or not.  The poem simply says that "choices" are inevitable, but you never know what your choice will mena until you have lived it.  In the poem one words that tends to lead readers astray is "sigh".  As a reader of the poem, we may think the word "sigh" means a relief, or maybe means a choice of regret..  Or, there is a sigh of regret as well as a sigh of relief. Which one is it? Either way, the fact is that you cannot know how your choice will affect your future/ your life until after you have lived it.

 

 

Interesting poem and ways to analysis it.   But I do know each and every day, we have to make choices, as simple as turning off our alarm and getting out of bed, what to wear, what to eat for breakfast, what radio station to listen to, what to eat for lunch, whether or not to let someone merge in front of you in heavy traffic.  Choice after choice, decision after decision.  When you actually take the time to think about how these choices will affect our future, or even as simple how it will affect our day.  Only we know what choices we should make,

 

There as many good people who make poor choices or bad choices, but we have to live and learn from those choices.   One say i can say for me.... no matter what choices i have made through my life.... because of those choices, I am who I am today......had i not made the choice, who knows where my life would of been.  There may be choices that I wish would of been different, but no regrets!  Each choice is mine to make.... i must choose which road to take.... knowing that i cant travel both.  I do know I choose to have my God and my family and friends with me on whichever road i chose.

 

 

Because of His Amazing Grace......