For Those Who Dare To Be Different

These are two inspiring poems I read recently and felt they were worthwhile sharing. I know quite a few may not agree but I fell to live life to the fullest we must follow our dreams even if it means taking a few wrong decisions. making mistakes and being unconventional. It should not happen that we end up regretting missing out on opportunities because we didn't have the courage to be different. Enjoy and feel free to post your views and counter-views !

The Road

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 took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference !

- Robert Frost

The Road Revisited

I took the road less traveled then;
the first saved for another day.
Despite my doubts a time came when
I wandered that same path again.
This time, I chose the other way.

The path that I had trod before
could hold no challenge now, for me.
The unknown road was like a door
I’d left unopened, theretofore.
But now, its byways I would see.

My vain predictions proved untrue.
Way led to way; but I’d come back!
You can come home again –- renewed;
wipe clean the ledger’s debts accrued:
Old errors, we can still retract.

Now it’s with joy I sing this song,
and not with sighs about lost dreams.
While sometimes paths we take are wrong,
and journeys back are hard and long,
by second chances, we’re redeemed.

-Jerome Norris