we make choices, choices make us

Times come in life when you have to choose between certainty and uncertainty, low risk and high risk, easy and difficult, common and uncommon. Most of the people that I know certainly choose the low risk, easier and common path. The sad part is not that they join the rat race. The sad part is that they join it happily, unaware how unfulfilled they will be in the coming time. The sadder part is that when the unfulfilled times come, they refuse to change their path and take shelter in helplessness which they call ‘majboori’. They take comfort in self-sympathy, count their sacrifices and make their offsprings follow the same path.

Everyone wants to special and extra-ordinary but only a few have the courage to leave the ordinary life and take “The road not taken”.

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

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 onto 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 took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

by Robert Frost

Honestly, I am not scared of the risks involved. I am scared of the life that makes me a participant of the rat race. I am scared that my life will go unnoticed. I can walk alone in the wilderness and embrace the immeasurable beauty that life can provide. But I cannot walk among the crowd, trying to be ahead of everyone, pushing and making my way to the front throughout my life, knowing that there’s no front, only a circle going round and round. The choice lies in my hand – the choice between certain and uncertain.