Thursday, September 18, 2008

"Reflections of the way life use to be..."

As the number of years I have spent on this planet nears the order of 30, often have I been reflecting on the past. I will make note that this doesn't mean lamenting. As we go through the natural stages of life we make various choices along the way. Some good. Some bad. Some really really bad. I think of accepting admissions to MSMS. I think of not completing all of my college applications. I think of losing my academic scholarship during my undergraduate tenure. I think of the way too many shots and the way too many missed classes. We must remember all these choices good or bad are paths that lead us to were we stand today. When I ponder about the choices and descisions I made I often think of the last stanza of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". It states, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Although I took the road less travelled it was the correct path for me. Of course that's not to say that all the immature actions I took over the years were great decisions. But the immaturity was necessary for me to grouw to be who I am today. Tis better to err in adolecense than to err in adulthood. So if you ask, have I any regrets? Would I change my life, the choices I made, the people I surrounded myself with? Not for one damn second!

Here's to another 30 more years!!

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