The name for this website was inspired by Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” Choices in my own life took me to a place where I was unsure of my next step. I had resigned from a position many folks aspire to. It was “secure” and paid exceptionally well.
So, I quit.
I finished a long-delayed bachelor’s degree, then went on to complete a master’s. I had long known I wanted to focus on writing, but couldn’t quite drum up the faith to take the leap into full-time freelancing.
I encouraged others to become entrepreneurs, but held back myself.
When Paul Potts made his rapid ascent from obscurity and poverty to plenty-of-cash stardom in 2006, I began pondering the two-roads concept earnestly. I began asking others whether they had ever experienced a “Roadturn” in life — one that really did make “all the difference.”
Let’s stop there, for now.
Let’s look at Frost’s poem and then look within. Are you at a fork in the road? Have you been there before? Your story is welcome here.
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 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.(Robert Frost)
fflambeau says
The poem is by Robert Frost, not Walt Whitman!
Roadturn says
Thank you for catching that. Why I said Whitman is beyond me. Correction made.