Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Freedom to take the road never taken and hug revolution!


The Road Never Taken

One was a beaten path and was evident,
The other never traveled, uncharted, unexplored, un-evident,
Two roads forked before my eyes,
Emerging from a distance quiet like a block of ice,
Certain I had to make a choice,
I heard that still small voice,
Urging me to shun the beaten path,
To shun the caterwauling voices of distracting wrath,
So I heeded and took the path never traveled,
I wish I could say with every step I wondrously marveled,
The opportunities came in the guise of work,
But that did not take away my zeal to continue the walk,
As I forged the road never before traveled a lot was revealed,
Nothing could stop me even though I was sometimes frightened by the uncertain hand destiny dealed,
There was lots of gold and treasures and precious stones waiting to be discovered,
Focused on my path every once in a while I pondered what loot had happened on the beaten path more traveled,
What a difference did it make and what a mountain of opportunity did it bring,
To take that never ever taken path.

Whether it was Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) most known for the electric light bulb who developed and innovated a wide range of products; the Wright Brothers who successfully dreamed, conceived, designed, toiled, refined, built and flew the first powered aircraft making man’s first steps towards powered flight; Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) who created the first mechanical computer believed to be the initial prototype of all computers;  James Watt (1736 – 1819) who invented the steam engine, an invention critical to driving the industrial revolution; Alexander Bell (1847 – 1922) credited with the invention of the first practical telephone; Galileo (1564-1642) who developed a powerful telescope used in the confirmation of ground breaking theories about our world or Tim Berners Lee credited for developing the http:// protocol for the internet which allows us to interact through this medium; they all encountered and knew something about the uncertainty of trail blazing. They knew the scares of walking a path no other person had walked before, they knew what it means to have no previous experience or precedence to bank on, but they also knew the overwhelming and almost compulsive and instinctive urge to stay at it no matter the scares, no matter the discouraging voices, no matter the obstacles, no matter the setbacks, no matter the beckoning excuses giving them a millions reasons to stop, no matter the weariness of travelling that sometimes tiresome road; they know the unparalleled feeling of being drawn by a giant magnet of unrelenting drive and inviting curiosity towards that bigger than self dream and revolutionary, life changing discovery.

It is a path which can be lonesome and full of rejections, one which also helps reveal the nature of your true character and the true nature those around you. When nothing else matters more, and you are more than enthusiastically happy to give those countless extras that allow you inch closer to the dreams you see at night and courageously work towards in the daytime, then you might well be on your way to earning a place amongst those hall of famers who go to their graves totally wasted in a cause and course worthy of any lifetime’s best efforts and service. Have you given yourself permission to take the never taken path? Have you given yourself freedom to reach out to those things and people and places no one reaches out to or in a manner no one has dared out with before? Chances are many people have been on the beaten path and explored it and mined all the treasures, baring the barren land of once treasured soil but, but the opportunities in the never taken path are boundless – embrace it!


© October 2014 afesehngwaHilary

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