The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.

This is one of my favorite poems of all time and the inspiration for these reflections on my journey. I memorized it in elementary school and I think I could probably still say it from memory! I often feel as though my entire life, I have taken the road less traveled by, and that has definitely made all the difference. This road is not as worn down and easy to find, and I don't know what lies ahead, but I am certain that my journey has only just begun, and I am ready to race towards my ultimate goal!

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.