Aww, man. I actually wrote this over a week ago, but since I haven’t posted much recently and don’t feel like posting now, here’s something from the draft box. It’s no longer relevant in fact, but maybe you can relate.
Are you familiar with the Robert Frost poem about two roads diverging in a wood and the speaker taking the one less traveled and that making all the difference? If you’ve never read it, look it up. That’s how I’m feeling right now.
You know how in retrospect you can look back and say I’m glad I made that choice or I would’ve ended up _________? Well, when you’re in a position to make choices that can change your destiny you very rarely know it. Maybe it’s the one time you dare to do something different, drive a different way home, answer an unknown call, choose the red dress instead of the blue one. Whatever “it” is, it changes your life and you never know why because it happens so suddenly it takes you by storm. Maybe it’s connecting with someone who will become an integral part of your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Whatever the choice is, there is a certain amount of freedom in taking the road less traveled, and indeed, it does make all the difference.
i’ve never read this poem by Frost, but i will look it up.
it’s amazing how doing one thing differently, or some seemingly small decision can alter the rest of your life (sometimes drastically). i think about (bad) relationships i’ve been in and wonder, if i hadn’t walked into that store that day, i would have never met that dude, lol. but he played a very important role in my life, so i know it was purposed.
you never know what road life and God will lead you down. i’ve certainly learned to never brush off anything as chance or coincidence because even the seemingly smallest of occurrences can later be gateways to large things (good and bad). it’s exciting, not knowing what’s ahead. and i, for one, purposely change up on my routes home or places i go, or paths i walk because i become bored with the mundane routines of my life. but it can also be a little unnerving to stop and think that one of those days that i decide to journey down a less-traveled road, that that could be opening the door to anything!
great post!
Comment by dragonflysoul — February 20, 2008 @ 1:31 p