Road Less Traveled

i just wanted to revisit this poem which v read in school....The interpretation at each point of time has a profound impact on me whenever i am placed in a crossroad!!!

(*The Road Not Taken, leaves its readers with many interpretations. In any case however, this poem clearly demonstrates Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. And sorry I could not travel both... It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler looks down one as far as I could. The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life*) AS QUOTED...

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.

Listen!!!!

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving advice,
you have not done what I asked...

When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings...

When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something to solve
my problems, you have failed me,
strange as that may seem...

Listen! All I asked was that you listen.
Not talk or do. Just hear me.

Perhaps that's why prayer works,
for some people.
Because God is mute and he doesn't give advice or
try to fix things.
He lets you work it out for yourself.
So please listen and just hear me.
If you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn.

And I'll listen to you.........