The Road Not Taken: 23rd of December

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

23rd of December

The end of a busy day, and we are almost ready for Christmas in my little family. The tree is decorated, every room has been cleaned, and most of the presents are wrapped. The last days before Christmas are always busy, and I guess that is part of the Christmas spirit, too, but now it is time to sit down and relax. One of the Christmas songs I associate with the late night of the 23rd of December is Silent Night performed by Mahalia Jackson. At home, we used to listen to a radio program the night before Christmas Eve, and we all had to hear this particular song before we could go to bed. Then we knew that Christmas was just around the corner!

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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