This weekend, over my cup of tea, I recalled my day and the past years. And only one line resonated in my mind -
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost
The question then was, did I enjoy this road, which I took
and is less travelled by?
And I realized that it is not about the road that you take, it is almost always about the choice that you make at a particular moment when you have to take a decision.
And as Robert Frost says, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” Back to the same moment to change the choice made, I did pick the road that was less travelled “not because it was just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, and not because it was grassy and wanted wear.”
I, however, deeply feel that choices should never be regretted, and there shouldn’t be an element of “sigh,” “somewhere ages and ages hence”.
Because the truth is that life goes on!
And it doesn’t stop, even if you want to re-make the choices
you didn’t make, to re-live the moments that you cherished and spend more time
with your loved ones, whom you lost to time. But it always enables you to make
choices to keep going on.
