The Road Not Taken
How we talk about our choices
“We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.” — William Shakespeare, 1599In the previous edition of Timeless & Timely (“The Choices We Make”), one of the timeless links was to Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.”
The Choices We Make
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.” — Charles Lamb, 1833 I had to make a difficult decision this week. Every January, the Baker Street Irregulars holds its annual dinner in New York City, bookended b…
And I promised to follow up on that with some additional thoughts.
It’s probably his best-known poem, having inspired so many other creative outputs from others: books, commercials, episode titles for a dozen TV shows… In fact, it may be the best-known American poem of all time.
It begins:
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both”
And concludes with the iconic lines:
“I took the on…
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