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Weekly Letter (FINAL) 02 April 2008
by Christopher on Apr.02, 2008, under Mission
I begin by quoting Robert Frost and his poem “The Road Not Taken” with explanation of how it applies after each set of lines.
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
The two roads were: life as it were (Good Job, School, Friends, a life by me considered “perfect”) and missionary service. I knew I should go on a mission, and wanted to, but did not want to leave this world I had created around me for I was happy.
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,
The first path (normal life) was clear and easy to see down to where there was a bend. I knew what I had, and what I could do. The greener path (Mission) was covered with grass and not really often traveled, nor could I see far ahead as to what I would encounter
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.
Two good things lay before me on that morning before the rest of my life. In the end I kept the first for another day, because that is what I felt was right. I didn’t know if I could pass the same point again, with the same opportunities for work etc. It is a risk that one does take.
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.
Now I am sighing because time has passed. Those two roads diverged in the wood of my adolescence and I chose the road less traveled. And it HAS made all the difference. (continue reading…)
