The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

 

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 undergrown.

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 even 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

黄色的树林里分出两条路，
可惜我不能同时去涉足，
我在那路口久久伫立，
我向着一条路极目望去，
直到它消失在丛林深处。

但我却选了另外一条路，
它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，
显得更诱人、更美丽，
虽然在这两条小路上，
都很少留下旅人的足迹，

虽然那天清晨落叶满地，
两条路都未经脚印污染。
呵，留下一条路等改日再见！
但我知道路径延绵无尽头，
恐怕我难以再回返。

也许多少年后在某个地方，
我将轻声叹息把往事回顾，
一片树林里分出两条路，
而我选了人迹更少的一条，
从此决定了我一生的道路。

 

凌晨睡眠中我忽然想起了这首诗，想起了曾经很喜欢的文学课本，想起了很多两者必须择其一的--the one not taken.越想这首诗，我就越后悔当初为什么要选择语言学而不是文学。尽管此刻我还清楚的记得我说服自己义无反顾选择前者的理由。

对于未来我还有些不确定，但是我的人生只有我自己说了算。我不喜欢别人来指指点点，我也不喜欢被拿来比来比去。

现在看来，我只能更加坚定地走下去。谨以这首诗纪念一下那些没有选择的路吧！

 

 

decisions,decisions……it's decision time for me.

各种各样的结果在脑子里转来转去，好的坏的折中的。虽然结果是客观的是我们左右不了的，但是认真思考一下心里比较踏实。

最近我时常想起Glenn的话：“Remember -  control life.  Don't let life control you.  Always look at the positive, good things in your life and the bad things never seem important.”

希望付出的努力能有回报。