The Road Less Traveled
Although this photo was taken in Nepal, I’m going to take a short break from writing about my trip to instead update you on my life. I'll share more specifics soon, but for now I’m just going to say that I’ve recently put gigantic life changes into motion. Changes that are both exciting and terrifying. Changes that I’ll almost certainly regret at times and be ecstatic about at other times. Changes that could quite possibly change the direction of my entire life moving forward. It was not easy making these decisions—it’s literally taken me years to gain enough clarity and confidence to move forward with my plans. And even though this is the very beginning, and I still have a ton of work left to complete, I am proud of myself for finally getting the process started. Although my future is particularly uncertain right now, I’m forever optimistic that I’ll wind up where I’m meant to be. I hope to one day look back at this decision and know it was the best decision of my life.
"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
