I was looking over my list of movies when I was struck by the fact that I love movies where the guy gets the girl…….happy ending movies………cry and laugh movies and most definitely where the guy gets the girl. But in reality, sometimes we don’t get the guy or girl. Sometimes we take the other road. I’m so reminded of Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. He has been a favorite of mine since High School and I’m sharing his wonderful work below:

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.

I was speaking with a friend the other day about “doing life over”. In other words, if you had the choice, would you live your life again and if so, would you live it exactly the same or completely different. I stated that I thought people were not being honest if they said they would choose the same life over again. My mind cannot comprehend that choice. The road we have taken has been what “is” full of wonderful things, and also full of struggles. I think after 40+ years on this wonderful planet, I know myself fairly well. I know that I love adventure and spontaneity and I don’t think my thrill-seeking self could again stand at the apex of those roads and travel the one I know. I think I would race headlong, hair blowing in the wind down that new road. After all, I have no idea what is ahead…. around the bend and that makes all the difference.