The Road not taken!!!

The Road Not Taken
- 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;

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.

Lovely Poem, deep insight...life is all about choices...it is the choices you make that make or break you!!

When I was doing my time as an article clerk, a colleague commented, "Sen, there will be times when you will come on crossroads, and the choice you make will determine your destiny..."

Profound words from someone who had no clue about what he wanted in life...I laughed it off at that time but, off late, this thought has come back to haunt me...

We unconciously make choices everyday, every hour, every minute, for that matter every second of our life...Every morning when we wake up...alive...we make a choice to live...get out of bed...go to school/college/work...we make a choice to see what the world has to offer outside the cosy confines of our home...we meet or avoid people...again choices...answer or avoid phone calls/ emails...choices...

Every destination has more than one approach route...when we select one we conciously choose to enrich our lives with the experience/people/memories this road has to offer...but then we also select not to experience what the other road has to offer...often we think that we will take other route some other time but, chances are we never may...cause the choices we make may take us far away and we may or may not be able to retrace our steps back...our lives may be better or worse for these choices...

Think about it...There is no one-fix-all-solution in life...the choice made may give different results to different people...even though the choice is the same...
e.g: not everyone who runs away from home to become a bollywood star achieves that kind of success...some end up in places we would not want to talk about in mixed company...Is this why wise old men say, Keep your conscience clear, if your conscience tell you that something is wrong don't do it...atleast you can face the challenges the next day has to offer with a clear heart...

All said and done the road not taken will always haunt you, by reminding you of the things that may have been if only you chose to go there...