The Road Not Taken

I just had coffee with Sal, my friend from primary school. She's going off to HK to work. It made me realise how many people I know are moving on or are in another stage of their lives while I'm still in some state of limbo. 'tis true that I have a full-time job but I feel stuck in it, while most people I know are moving on to another stage or exploring other avenues even though they may not be sure of it.

At this point of time, I'm looking into lots of possibilities about what I can do apart from what I'm doing now. Sometimes, at this rate my school is working its processes, I feel like I'd rather be in a corporate organisation since 90% of the time, it's meetings & paperwork instead of working on the students. Ironic, isn't it? I thought that the core business of schools & teachers is the students but somehow, I don't know why I spend afternoon attending meetings, having to read quality assurance reports, tagging documents for external validation. :(

I've always wondered that, if I could turn back the clock, would I have come this way & be where I am. There is no guarantee that I would be any happier but don't you ever wonder how life would be if you took the road that was not taken?

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

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 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 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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference