The Road Not Taken

This poem helped me arrive in NH, it helped me through one of the darkest times in my life, it helped me meet my soulmate and life-long friends.  It challenged me in ways I could have never expected and it brought me back to life.  It pushed me outside my comfort zone and I will be forever grateful for what Mr. Frost gave me.  

I have to keep remembering IE is the 'road not taken' for me.  I'm looking at food, eating, preparation, etc. in a different and very foreign way as I embark on this journey to ultimately break free from all that holds me.  

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

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.


Keep choosing those roads not taken, it's worth it <3
From IE day 7,
Alyssa