First Post....The Road Not Taken
I fancy myself a lot of things, most are only in my head. :). Some I've actually convinced others to believe, but all are things I actually believe. I consider myself a pretty average guy with hints of greatness. Usually they don't last long but I relish them while they exist.
One of my greatest gifts is that of observation and appreciation, or so I believe; thus I start with my favorite poet, not just because I loved his poetry, but because 100 years before I roamed the halls of my high school, so did he. Seriously. Thus as this is a blog about "being" and hopefully being the "best" us we can be, why not start with the man who took the Road Not Taken:
"Remember, life gives of you what you ask, so ask big!
JV
One of my greatest gifts is that of observation and appreciation, or so I believe; thus I start with my favorite poet, not just because I loved his poetry, but because 100 years before I roamed the halls of my high school, so did he. Seriously. Thus as this is a blog about "being" and hopefully being the "best" us we can be, why not start with the man who took the Road Not Taken:
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. |
1. 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; | 5 |
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, | 10 |
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. | 15 |
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. | 20 |
"Remember, life gives of you what you ask, so ask big!
JV
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