For many times before, I have thought of the chance to undone the things which I should have never done in the past.

Which reminds me of the poem: The Road not taken by Robert Frost. The piece that gave me so much honor. I graduated with proficiency in teaching after I had won the interest of my students that one fateful afternoon while my supervisor was observing my class management. I had always loved poetry.

The Road not taken is a poem that simply conveys the importance of decision making.

"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."

Amidst the pride I have achieved, I failed to prove the potentials I have as a teacher so I moved on and embarked on to another journey, yet I still ended up with nothing cause everytime when the sea water turns rough, I ran and hide away. I have earned two degrees and passed two licensure exams but whalah!!! my work doesn't define the degree I have earned.

Going back and try to make things right wouldn't help me at all. It will just steal the moment that I should be cherishing life. Whatever path we chose in life, we must always remember that there's never really an easy road and in every success lies trade offs. The world is round, and we are living in a world full of twists and turns. Man is innately equip with the instinct to survive...we are all survivors so live life to the fullest!

As I journey through with my life, I have a deep convictions that wherever path I go, whatever path I choose, at the end of this journey, I will arrive at the place where God has directed me from the moment I was born.

I always look back to the poem "The road not taken by Robert Frost" since it reminds me of the importance of TODAY. I shoud'nt waste my time, because every moment becomes a history and whatever been done can no longer be undone.

Many of us squanders our time over the things that practically do not have any importance in our life with out realizing that we are wasting precious moments that our creator has given us.

Let me discuss as vivid as I could that persona in the poem is trying to imply:

In the first stanza, the persona is saying that he is standing in a diverging road in which he can not decide whether which way to go. It's like a goal we have in life. Many times we have multiple list of goals in our minds to the extend we can not achieve all in just one grip thus we have to take priority and that priority should be precised. There is no room for mistake in reality.

The second stanza conveys the decision of the persona who took the road of a less travelled by. In life, there are people who would take the easy path and very few will take the courage to take the road full of struggles.

On the third stanza, the persona realized that as he embarked on with his journey, he doubted if he could ever come back to the point where he has to decide which way to choose.

And at the last stanza, the persona regret of the decision he made but somehow what he had been through had made him a better person.

It doesn't matter what pain we have to endure and it doesn't matter what achievement we have attained in life. What matter is how strong we have become as the challenges of life molds us to become a better person everyday. What matter is the faith we have to our creator amidst the rough seas we have to sail on at some point in our lives.