Sheryl Crow was not kidding: “Everyday IS a winding road!” (I think I quote that song a lot).
In the last few weeks, I’ve been impacted once more by the power of choice. On one hand, when you are faced with a choice, it is easy to choose when you know your values and you have vowed to live in integrity with them. On the other, you are saddened by people around you believing that not making a choice is an option.
Fact is: you’re always making a choice, even when you think you’re not!
Here’s a poem by the late Robert Frost, recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry:
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.”
Choose wisely, positive mom!