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 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."

Robert Frost

          Note how this poem is called "The Road not Taken".  I always thought the main focus was on the road he took.  You know, the one that he took so long to decide on..the one less traveled..yadda yadda yadda.

         But, why "the road not taken"? Perhaps the things we say no too are just as important as the things we say yes to.  And lately I have struggled with both my yes' and my no's.  My big trouble, and my mom would agree, is that my heart is too big.  I care too much about others.  I put a lot of love into people.  I base my happiness on the happiness of others.

          And today I said no to a couple things.  That doesn't mean that they are any less important...but change is coming.  A new season of my life is starting...I need to note the caution that the "yellow wood" proclaims...and I need to move forward.  I have a choice...and who knows which path I will take...not I.  Perhaps I will do a little trail-blazing of my own.