My dad and I went on a walk today. I saw the leaves change color as though they were on fire: all shades of red, orange, yellow, purple, brown. I'm often taken back by how much beauty surrounds me. As we gingerly selected our path amidst twists and turns, muddy trails, fallen branches, forks in roads, I announced that I am not going to law school. Rather, I want to work as an environmental activist. I thought of the Robert Frost poem, which is never far from my mind.
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;
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| | 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,
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| | 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.
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| | 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. | 20 | |
woah! that's big. what kind of environmental activist? how radical? a lawyer can be an activist...i'm hoping an economist can be too...what type of activism do you want to engage in? building 7 foot tall puppets for actions, lobbying congress people, staging die-ins from air pollution, writing letters to the editor, fundraising???, I'm excited!
ReplyDeletehahaha. thanks for the enthusiasm Jane! Loads of upheaving things have been happening. We need to catch up. When is a good time to call?
ReplyDeleteYou should appreciate my visit coz you don't know the efforts I have made to access to you blog from here and update mine...5555...even the proxy can not work for more than 2 months. Well, if lawyer work as a radical activist, it make sense to me actually, I respect...
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