Forks in Destiny

     Today I'm standing at the branch of two forks in my future. Pretty major ones. I'm taking what I believe to be the right one but I'm also terrified that it will lead to some pretty rough seas. All I know is I can't take the other path again, I've traveled it before and it doesn't lead to where I want to be though it does offer the promise that I'll get there if I just stay on it a little longer. But I never reach that destination.
      Today I'm picking the unknown path. It's scarier but also more exciting. I know the drudgery and hell that waits in the other direction. I'm choosing freedom.

Also this song was playing while I wrote this post and it feels somehow fitting. An ocean of unknown possibilities...




 

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 marked 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