One of my all time favourties ! An absolute masterpiece of Robert Frost !

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 marked 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. Have you ever felt that you havent yet found something in you.. Have you thought that there s more to life than just this.. Well.. Have you made your choice yet????

Good oLd ChInEsE WiSdOm !

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For two full years this went on daily with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots full of water. Ofcourse the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to.

After 2 yrs of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. ''Im ashamed of myself because of this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.''
The old woman smiled, ''Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? Thats because i have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path and everyday while we walk back, you water them.''
''For 2 yrs I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.''
''Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace this house.''

Each of us have our own unique flaw. But its the cracks and flaws we each have that makes our life together so very interesting and rewarding.

You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

To all my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path !!!! ''