take the road less traveled

This is really a hard goal. I’ve been trying to do this for a while now, and just when I think it is getting easier, maybe the path is starting to widen a bit. There is an obstacle.

I can’t imagine myself being on any other path. But even with that, it is still a challenge.

I have shared some Robert Frost poems with my students. They seemed to have really enjoyed The Good Hours and were able to make some inferences from the poem. Unfortunately they did not enjoy The Road Less Traveled as much as I had hoped but still they are getting into poetry…a little.

I have been taking the road less traveled lately and find it to be exhilarating and lonesome at times. I am always unsure of my decisions but feel that if I make a mistake at least I can try to learn from it for my next decision! Cheers to all of you who are not sheep but leaders in your own life!

Ah, to be or not to be… I would like to take the road less traveled. One of my biggest fears is to be boring. I don’t want to be afraid to take chances and make decisions that will take my life in nontraditional directions. I want to live on an island and teach my kids to sail. I want to be an artist and not be someone elses employee. I want to wake up every morning feeling content and satisfied. I want to be the kind of person people tell their friends “guess what she’s doing now” I want to live with an open mind, happy heart and no regrets

Funny I seem to think too much about the decision I have made in the past and the things I have done in the past. I look to the future and try to decide what to do before I do anything. While planning is important I think I over plan and need to enjoy the fact that every day I get the choice to start something new or to continue with something old. I get the choice to live as free as I am willing to let myself or to be as trapped as I want to be. I choose everyday to live it not always to the most potential or as though it were my last but I still made the choice to not do anything. Tomorrow I will make another choice as to how I want to see my day I think I will not think about it until it has arrived and then deal with it. Frost came across a path without knowing that there would be a choice until he was there.

I am on the road less traveled… this is for sure… will it be easy… no, I have no doubt it will be one of the hardest things I have ever done… I have never been clearer on the right path… Let the journey begin…

I often think that perhaps I am just taking the road less travelled and that it is a good thing but perhaps taking a road MORE travelled is a better thing to do. I look at my situation and find that I am to blame for the situation I am in however how did I get here unless I took a detour and fell off the beaten path. Sometimes I should go to the light instead of accept the darkness.

If I travel down a road less travelled but do not know that the path is not often taken then will that make a big difference? I think that only if I know that the road is less travelled that it would make a real difference.

I think that I have done this backwards I have not taken any road sometimes I just stand and wait for someone to tell me which road I should take or not take and then I go. I think I need to find the roads and then make some decisions and if others take it then so be it. I believe that what will make all the difference is the simple act of making a decision which is what I believe I need to work on. Never look back in wish for something other then what has happened look forward to see what you make your universe and change the things that you are able to.

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 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.

I believe I have done this threw out my life. I have never stayed in a situation for anyone else than myself. Which may not be the best of decisions. I have realized in life that I always look back and am greatful for not staying in situations that I am not happy with. And allowing myself to grow in my life. But in the beginning there are always those moments of dread, when your thinking “what in the hell did I just do?”. And maybe I would learn more about perservering if I had stayed and tried to enjoy and learn from those things I walked away from. But all in all, there is only one life. And I would rather spend it creating my own path, than walking in the path of others.