The Road Not Taken

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.
- Robert Frost


My favourite poem.
the choices we made that took us where we are now...
the choices we make that take us where we are going
the choices we will make that will take us where we will arrive.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide us the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the fate and narrow the road that leaders to life and only a few find it. - Matthew 7:13, 14

what is your choice? which road?
the road less travelled?
the road narrow?


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2 days ago, i was going to SBC for a seminar. that was the first time i was going to SBC. hence i was kinda clueless travelling. after crossing a junction, i was faced with 2 choices: 1. walk along the pavement that follows the road, or 2. turn away from the road and take a path that leads up.

my view of the 2 choices was obsured by trees and the bend in the road. my friend and i chose the latter, causing us to end up in private estate. we chose to continue to find out if it could lead us to SBC. we walked on and on... in the hot morning sun! even when we saw SBC down the 'hill' from us, and there was no through road from where we were to it, we continued hoping our path will take us down to our desired destination. we figured since we were still early, we could afford to walk on along the path and find out if it can bring us there instead of having to backtrack.

after more than 20 minutes on that path did we realise that it was leading us further up when SBC was down there... along the main road. we had to then painfully trace our steps over the unnneeded distance we took after sighting our end point.

we were late. the renown speaker had already started. we stumbled into the back row hot, sticky and bothered. i learnt about repentance that morning; not a part of the seminar's objective though.

we chose the slightly more 'exciting' route to us, over the safe and more logical one (since SBC is a school and how obsure can it be?!).
we chose to continue in our error trying our luck to see if we could still reach our destination on our alternative path.
we chose to postpone turning back (repentance is 180 degrees about turn from the worng direction you are heading) even when we saw our destination down there while we were 'up' here.

not all roads lead to rome.