{"id":276,"date":"2007-01-16T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-04-07T02:52:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:52:40","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"the road not taken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken<\/em><\/a>” suggests that the choices we make can radically change the lives we lead.<\/p>\n

I know where my fork in the road lay. When I met my husband in 3rd year university, I was faced with the choice of continuing our relationship as a long distance relationship, or joining him in traveling from base to base – leaving my studies behind. We eloped, I spent my 3rd year in Fredericton while he moved from CFB Gagetown (New Brunswick) to CFB Borden and CFB Kingston (Ontario). I didn’t register for 4th year and walked away from University to follow my husband in his career.<\/p>\n

What was the impact? Other than not finishing university until nearly a decade later, I spent years travelling the country, world and working in a field I had never known existed while studying French and History. I have an inkling that my career would be radically different had I continued on the path I’d set out on after leaving high school.<\/p>\n

I doubt I would have spent any time in India – which radically modified my outlook in life – had I not begun working for the company I do. And I wouldn’t be working for the company I do had we not been transferred from a base in Ontario to CFB Winnipeg (Manitoba) in 1998.<\/p>\n

Would I be married or have children if I’d made different choices? I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that if I could go back and do it all again, I hope I’d have the strength and presence of mind to make the same decision a second time around. My life would have been radically different had I not met my husband when I did but I don’t believe that different automatically equals better.<\/p>\n

The past decade has been a bit of a roller coaster ride, but I wouldn’t want to change a thing. As Garth Brooks<\/a> croons “I could have missed the pain, but I’d of had to miss the dance<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Did you reach a fork in the road and choose a path that may have changed the course of your life? What do you think the impact of that choice was?<\/p>\n

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Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” suggests that the choices we make can radically change the lives we lead. I know where my fork in the road lay. When I met my husband in 3rd year university, I was faced with the choice of continuing our relationship as a long distance relationship, or joining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}