Challenger

“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

The road less traveled has no signs helping people know exactly where their going to end up. It has no On-Star workers giving you directions on how to get where you’d like to be. All the road less traveled has is the assurance that where ever you end up, it was you and you alone that got you there.
But in today’s society the road less traveled seems to be a deserted highway. People have become too comfortable mapping their futures out, instead allowing themselves to actually live. There doesn’t seem to be anymore spontaneity in the world, there’s no more innocent good bad fun, there just seems to be the evil, bad fun. That fun that people plan out to the last detail, a fun manifest if you will.

“I say let us never be complete, I say let us evolve.... let the chips fall where they may.”

-Tyler Durden

How many of us could actually go through with that, just saying never be complete, let us just evolve, allow the chips to fall where they may. I’d said not many. But of course we are dealing with our futures here, the thing that is no joking matter. The only problem with everyone out there is, we often fear the thing we want the most. So our futures being that “one thing”, we often fear it so much that we neglect to live our current lives, preparing for the future. Trust me the future can wait.
And if you believe the future can’t wait and you most put your life on hold and completely skip your childhood, then do it. But when you’re probably 30 plus years old, you’ll be looking at your kids and not understanding why there acting the way they are, because you won’t understand what it is to be a kid. That’s kind of a sad thought, in the long run. To look back one day and think, “I had great test scores,” and not “I barely remember that, because I lost consciousness.”

“Don’t take life to seriously, you’ll never get out alive.”

-Van Wilder

There are so many people out there that take life way to seriously; they don’t know how to relax. Gandhi believed life a much too stressful place, that’s why he went way up high to live on that mountain alone, to get away from people stressing out. Gandhi loved people, he became a leader to a bunch of them, he loved people so much.

“Sooner or later you’re going to realize, just as I did, there’s a difference between knowing the path... and walking the path.”

-Morpheus

There comes a time in all of our lives when we must make a decision that will affect everything we do from that moment until the end of our life comes. And usually what follows that decision is the inevitable fact that we all must mature, we all must realize that we aren’t kids anymore. But that decision doesn’t come for awhile. We’re still kids now, we all can still act like kids, but for some reason, most of us won’t. Some of us act too mature, most of us act immature, which also can be annoying.
There has been a serious change in etiquette in the way we live our lives. When we were kids it was all about recess, gym, lunch time, cartoons, etc. Granted for some, I being one of those some, excluding gym, are still very much like that. But recess is no more, gym isn’t all fun and games, lunch time has fights that emerge from spilled milk, and cartoons have cursing in them. This is not the world we grew up in, the etiquette is that we grew up, but does that child inside us, that one that still loves all those thing’s have to grow up too. Can’t that child get the chance to come out and play? The world today says “no”, they say “responsibility”, the world says we must grow up, not that we must become prudes.

“If you put your mind to something, you can accomplish anything.”

-Doc Brown

There are those of us as children who had dreams of becoming astronauts, police officer’s, actors, or maybe even musicians. But when we started to grow up, we throw away our dreams, to be more “sensible”, to be more responsible. We gave up on ourselves, so that we don’t feel the pain of rejection. Because most of us will never strive to be what we really want to be. We settle, because that’s what it means to be responsible. Now I’m not saying to not be responsible, responsibility has done many great things. It’s just that so many of us would hold it in front of our eyes blinding us from the truth that we’re afraid of what we really want. That if we actually went for it we might be taking a risk. And God forbid that we ever take risks.

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”

-William Wallace

Sometimes we must fight for what we really want. No matter how trivial they may seem to others. If it is worth fighting for to you, don’t just simply let it slip away, hold on to it, don’t let it go. For all it takes is a gust of wind to blow your dreams away.
Sometimes it’s not easy to hang on to your dreams, I know this, I’m not naive. But just because it’s not an easy thing to do is no reason to not at least try. Because life is just a series of moments, and if you allow one to slip by, you’ll regret it the rest of your life.

“It’s so obvious that the promise keeps me here, painting where all the colors disappear, and they try to find a way to make me something that I’m not, I touched the world, I felt the sun, I know the best is yet to come undone. ”

-Lit

Now I know that this article won’t persuade a single person into changing their life style, but maybe it will allow them to at least see that they’re a pretty boring a person. Mr. Planner does succeed in life in the end, but Mr. Fun Haver has a better time with life, both end up wth what they want, but Mr. Fun Haver has stories to tell the grand kids.
I’ve decided to end this article with a poem by Edgar Allen Poe that goes along with the struggle it is to hold onto a dream, how you feel like your about to wake up, from your already woken self

“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep-while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp!
O God! can I not save
One from the
pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”

-Edgar Allen Poe