Robert Frost and Me

I memorized "The Road not Taken" back in the 60s along with two of his other poems. This one always reminds me of a friend who went in the convent right out of high school back in 1949. She chose the “one less traveled by” and stayed there for twenty years. I always wanted to be a teacher and even had ideas of going into the convent myself. You have to realize that I attended twelve years of Catholic school and it was a wonder that more of us didn’t go this route. Of two hundred twenty graduates, only seven went into that profession. Three of us almost went into the Navy…we liked the uniforms. When the time came, we begged off. I always admired classmates who knew exactly what they wanted to do in life but I didn’t have a clue. My sister, Adeline was accepted at Trenton State Teacher’s College with a Physical Education career and that fit her like a T. I had dreams of college and after high school went to work to save for it but that didn’t happen. I used the extra money to buy clothes and meet friends, etc. I often thought if my choices were the right ones and know they were. I married at twenty-one and started a family at twenty-three. I have wonderful children who all seem happy in their careers. I am blessed with many beautiful grandchildren along with their children. There’s a song entitled “If I had my life to live over, I do the same things again.” “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 “more” traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”