April 24, 2005
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The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, on his oft-misinterpreted “The Road Not Taken”: “No wonder you were a little puzzled over the end of my Road Not Taken. It was my rather private jest at the expense of those who might think I would yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life. I suppose I was gently teasing them. I’m not really a very regretful person….”, and: “I wasn’t thinking about myself there, but about a friend…,a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn’t go the other. He was hard on himself that way.” (In other words, we create these little dramas about choices which aren’t nearly as important as we often imagine them to be.) There are some people who seem hell-bent on being unhappy in life. If there isn’t one thing to complain about, they’ll find another thing to complain about. That’s fine with me, but I just wish they’d stay the heck away from me. I happen to like my life, and although every now and then, I get a little irritated with people, for the most part I am with some pretty wonderful people daily.
There are just a select number of people who daily complain about the company they choose to keep.
In a world full of billions of people, you’d think they’d have no trouble walking away, and finding some people to hang out with who are already like them, instead of becoming petulant that others are not changing to their specifications.
Azul es el cielo,
Azul es el mar.
Azul es el barquito
Que te voy a dar.
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