I adore this poem. I’ve spent many years reading it for no other reason, than I love the sound of it and the image of the forest.
The end not so much.
I never really knew why!
Today I do…
I always believed I was a person of indecision . I would jump off the cliff, eyes closed and screaming, soometimes shaking with fear, or run down the road no one else would go , because…!!!!. or follow some person or wild dream that made no sense.
Today as I read this poem, I realised that I am a person of decision, they may be bad ones they may be good ones ? they may be terrible mistakes , or full of abundance.
But I most definitely make decisions. I AM THE FURTHEST THING FROM INDECISIVE THAT I CAN BE…..we are.always moving forward so you can’t change them but you can be part of the positive ev solution of that energy and find something new on the path less travelled .when I say new I mean a new version of something or someone, or something completely new either from the old or , simply brand new
I’ve spent alot of time pointing out mistakes and decisions others have made and trying to show them it’s not a good idea. One way or another. I’m essentially a teacher That’s my default setting. I want to push boundaries and allow learning , yet at the same time I seem to set boundaries.Which I believe is a good thing , other times I trust the journey of the other or the path and want to see where this leads, regardless and simply jump aboard the Pineapple Express
I believe in saying choose your poison, choose your path make a decision.
Yet when they had made a decision it just wasn’t one I would have made. So I wait for them to find their way while wielding my sword in the background hoping they will arrive unscathed . Is this a path , or a follow.
I think it is Judgement. I thought I was the least judgemental person I knew, until I realised I am very judgemental. I want to hear your side but I want to argue it so I can learn from it… If You are committed to your path maybe I am wring and You are right. Will it change my decision? Who knows? As I will walk parallel to the path more followed.
I don’t follow the middle, I don’t follow the left , or the right . I hang with people who interest me from a psychological point of view.
It turns out my Tribe tend to be people. All types of people , from all backgrounds. I like people who are not afraid of their shadow side and try to integrate it with their light side. I like people who don’t give up. I don’t want to be with weak people, but I do like those who accept their weakness as I see it as strength.
I don’t like to see it , in case I will view that in myself. Yet I know I have weakness and I accept it.i try not to get stuck in it like most. I am unsuccessful and sometimes I succeed as I follow this road less travelled with others, yet felt my the multitude.
This poem about decision , choosing a road leas travelled resonates because my decisions have always been to travel that road, I like the road less travelled not because it is not battered and worn like the other ,but because, I have never wanted to follow everyone else. I didnt want to be a leader , either I simply wanted to see…what else…i have sometimes craved the other and wondered what I was doing and Wouldn’t it be easier the other way. Until I saw that most people are following some are happy some are not some are struggling terribly with fear because they don’t fit and yet are not believing enough in themselves to take the other path.
In fact all it takes is a decision. If you don’t fit ,you don’t need to rebel and fight back, hurt others , you just need to climb across the brambles and take a breath. Because the truth is it’s not flowers and chocolates for everyone . The fight and struggle to fit may be an illusion of happiness conditioning that doesn’t fit for You.
I found myself in the last 2 years trying to fit in, to so called normal. Going on package holidays , eateries where everyone goes, listening to generic music for my age profile. Trying out activities that suit my age.
Turns out that is the road most travelled and it is still not for me. I don’t want it. I want to try new things, I don’t want to be younger or live in that world either I want to keep walking and learning .. I don’t feel the need to be a hippy , or get Dyssentey in India while looking for myself. That too is a road well travelled. WE all walk our path , our journeys are parallel and as tumultuous at times but they can be lonely , on either either path , surrounded by people in close proximity or surrounded by others further apart yet closer in their journey. Supportive in that journey, in a different and deeper way. That is why we like to say reach out and ask if you need help , sometimes in the road well travelled you can’t be seen and you know it , so maybe just stop and stand for a minute watch the people flow around you after a time and create a space. If you look up , you will see others like you and hands reaching out , that you can’t see if you stay in the crowd.
I like to be me. I’m sure I will die being me and surprising those who expect me to be a certain way…. I may well live up to those expectations .I may not.
The point is we are not all the same, but the majority feel very comfortable following the path everyone else has worn ,because they feel comfortable with that decision.
The odd thing is from time to time I climb over the hedgerows and sit in this comfortable world, but I always end up back on the other road, covered in healing wounds and looking forward, to where I simply have no clue…I am not alone there.
It is how it is. . So in the same way I was judging comfortable lives , that really are not that comfortable I am judged for taking a different route. Black and white night and day sun and moon. All running parallel all with a purpose to show us the difference and the need for both. The synergy.
So today all judgement stops. Today we should just enjoy ourselves and the decisions we have made. Today is a day to stop judging yourself and your decisions .If they are bad ones then learn from them don’t stay in a bad decision because you spent alot of time and energy making it.
If we have hurt others , to go down the path we should make amends and first forgive ourselves. Then step forward. We should ask , are we proud and not be aelfish in our approach to the answer.
Any mistake can be overturned ,so can any decision. You can never go back, but you can move forward, if it is coming from a place of authenticity and truth. Because all can be forgiven, but the one thing that can’t be forgiven is not making the effort to be yourself in your entirety.
Do not choose a path because you are scared choose it because , you are looking for your own path another path less travelled.
Namaste Tutti
You are not INDECISIVE when you make a decision….it may not be the one you expect but it is the one you chose. #committoit
Robert Frost
The road less travelled
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
