Days ago, I came across a poem called The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost. It sparked my eyes because it shed new light upon my mind the sight I saw it. Though I learned its Chinese version in my senior school year, it is this time that it really make a difference in my mind.
Life is metaphorically related to a journey which is full of choices. When we are going on a journey we can never know what would happen in the next few steps, which is the same with our life. We cannot know what on earth will happen until we experienced them. But then, whatever the result is we should face it. That is because we cannot recover the journey or rewrite our fate anymore.
So every time when we are given a chance to make a decision, which is imaged as when the author himself meeting a turn-off during his journey in the poem, we would do as the author do to lose in meditation for a long time. We will look down every alternative as far as possible. In doing so we try to figure out what will be missed out, or what will be get if we choose one of them rather the others. After all, it is beyond our power to foretell what our destiny is.
However, no matter how unwilling we are to relinquish the others alternatives, we cannot step onto two different paths at the same time. Making decision means making sacrifices. If we want to achieve something, we should make a compromise to give up other things in return. Once the decision is made, we would have no opportunity to go back to the original spot to start another journey, which symbolize a different fate. So we should be as rational and careful as possible when making decisions.
All in all, think twice or even three times before you make a decision. After it being made, what we can do is just do it to the best, and never give ourselves a chance to regret!
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Careful decisions are important, but sometimes the first choice according to intuition is better.
ReplyDeleteFor me, intuition is no good. The most reliable way to make decisions is definitely reasoning and analyzing. Intuition is just a more nicer word for random choice; you give up careful thinking and let the fate make the decision for you--a convenient and easy way. But sometimes it's inevitable.
ReplyDeleteYou must feel lucky to have come to Singapore. Because you acquait me thanks to your wise choice.
ReplyDeleteNo one can foretell what will happen in the future. So after you make decisions and what we have to do is just stick on it. Nomatter what result it is, never regret. because it's our choice.
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