I’m constantly amazed how life keeps moving forward. Even if you can’t see the steps you’re taking as you are moving. Robert Frost wrote a poem once about his roads or paths in your life. He called it The Road Not Taken. I always loved that poem and have kept it in the back of my mind for many years. I feel like I can relate to this poem because I too have taken a unique road that was less traveled by people that I knew. Here is my favorite part of Robert Frost’s poem:
“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 always knew I never wanted the common path. I wanted the unknown, the path less taken. How fearless I use to be! I sometimes wonder if there is any part of that girl left inside me after I have taken this path. But I suppose it doesn’t matter. Because I am who I am now at this moment. Not who I once was last fall, or last year, last decade, or even the future person I want to become. I am this person now and I my path has lead me here. Sometimes the path we want to take turned out very unexpected, leading you to a place you never knew existed or ever expected to go. But it is an amazing adventure isn’t it? The key is learning to survive the journey. While I have found a rest stop on mine for a time, I am so excited to see where my future and my path will take me.
Tomorrow I have an opportunity to do something I am not sure I have ever done before. It’s a little nerve wracking and I’m not sure I’m ready for it, but I have given it a great deal of thought lately and I am willing to see where this path will now lead to. I will wait to drop the news another time as to what it is. To be honest, I’m still trying to process it myself. What I will say, is life moves on. Even if you are not ready to, or you’re too scared to, or you’re hurt, life keeps going. So, the way I see it, I can either hide from it, or embrace it. This path less traveled may have left me feeling lost and tangled in the woods, but think of how fun it will be when I get to the other side and tell someone of this crazy journey and all the new things I have done and learned.
It is such an unsettling feeling when you feel like you are standing still and the world is spinning like crazy around you. Here I am, stuck in a place I didn’t choose to be, yet I am trying to make the best out of it by finding new friends, and things to do along the way as I save up to venture back to the state where I belong. I will make it there sometime this year, but in the meantime, I don’t see why I can’t still have fun from time to time right? Even now, I am glad and so very thankful I did have the guts to take the path less traveled. It has made me who I am today.
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Wow! It reminds me of something I read on a poster or journal or someplace once that says something like “Sometimes you get lost on the way to a Dream and find a better one.” It’s about the journey, really, not the destination. NtF