BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Saturday November 14, 2015 10:03 amTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, begins one of my favourite poems. I have often contemplated this poem and always wondering... what lay down that other road? Because I do not know I am ever fulfilling the beginning of the last stanza of this poem; I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
After certain evil men carried out their cowardly acts in Paris yesterday I thought if I wrote anything today it would be about those IS bastards! And the fact that I can hardly wait until they actually meet God one day only to be cast, first, into Hell and then after the general resurrection of the damned to finally be cast into the Lake of Fire! Their punishment will be well deserved!
However, after I sat down and tried to gather my thoughts I began thinking about all of our choices in life that bring each of us exactly to where we are today... exactly to this place, and time, and circumstance... regardless what our present circumstances are? It is true of the cowards in France yesterday and it is true of me sitting at my desk typing this Saturday morning and it is true for everyone else who might read what I write today.
Looking at my own life I see that many times a decision I made long ago that seemed almost insignificant at the time, has led to major changes in my present life today! Though that is completely true, I also see that in every one of those decisions, either big or small it was my decision to make... so in that sense every hurt, or sleight, or anything else in my life that has caused heartache to me personally, I have been directly responsible for all of it.
While logically I can reason with myself and point out the obvious: e.g., I am here today doing what I presently do because of my own decisions... that truth offers no comfort whatsoever. It is sort of like a jarring slap to the face, which might be good to wake a person up, but it doesn't feel all that good. (Trust me, from personal experience I know.)
Once a person understands that a single choice, or series of choices, some good and some bad has brought each of us to where we are... then comes the harshest truth of all! And that truth is there will come a time in life when a person realizes that those choices can not be undone, and neither can amends be made. No do-overs, no mulligans, no second chances, i.e., and that is when you realize you are now between... the proverbial rock and a hard place!
Mr. Frost, if I ask nicely... can I please see what lay down that other road? Just a glimpse please. I'm not even saying I want to walk it, but if I could only see what it was like?
posted by Robin Johnson @ 10:03 AM
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