Thursday, September 1, 2011

The road less traveled by

One of my all time favorite poems is by Robert Frost called, 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.



My favorite sentence in that whole poem is the last three lines. That's the whole message of the poem right there! It hits home for me, it really does. I've always known that our standards stand out from the norm and I've always been, in a way, proud of that. The one thing is, I would never down my standards for anyone or anything. My standards have shaped me to be the person I am today and having that as my foundation and having the gospel as my foundation, I know everything will fall into place. I know that if I put those two things first and letting those guide me while I make decisions in life and even though some doors will close, greater doors will open.

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