...And That Made All the Difference

I have been thinking about what brought me here, to Vancouver, to law school, to my marriage, all the wonderful things in my life. And it was really...nothing. Not anything I can point to. I just woke up one day seven years ago feeling vaguely uneasy and unfocused. I went to Starbucks and decided, "I'll be a lawyer." And that's really all there was to it. Amazing how life works.

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)