The Road Not Taken

Ibland kommer känslan av att vara lite, lite fel – en subtil nyans, knappt märkbar men ändå kännbar. Det gäller att vara sann mot sig själv. Robert Frosts dikt The Road Not Taken får mig att känna att vi alla har en given plats i tillvaron - det gäller bara att våga välja:

I skogen vägen delas i två, och Jag -
Jag valde den som trampats av få,
Och det har gjort hela skillnaden

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, 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

Robert Frost