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I’m reading a new book called “Clients Forever” by Doug Carter. Very early on, he brings up Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.”
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.
Carter’s point is, in life we come to various forks in the road of life. We must choose one. It is unlikely we will be able to come back and take the other.
The fork Carter talks about in his book is, one fork is to continue as we have in the past and where do we think that will lead. The other fork is to try something new. The new fork could be good or it could be bad.
So he asks the reader, "Do you want to continue as you have or do you want something different and hopefully better?"
Posted by Ted at February 21, 2004 4:20 PM