The Road Not Taken

This is my favourite poem by Robert Frost. The theme also happens to be my son's school motto. I happened to read this again yesterday, and thought I will share it here at a time when the children are expecting exam results, and planning for their future. It is wise to just not follow the herd, but take up something close to your heart and which you are passionate about.

Here is the poem.

          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 tother, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy ans 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.
                               - Robert Frost


Cheers!