關於人生的決擇,想起很久很久以前讀過的一首詩:
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in 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
沒選擇的路
黃樹林中分出兩條路
遺憾地是我無法兩條都選
獨身的旅者，我佇立很久
看著其中一條岔路的盡頭
一直延伸到矮樹林的彎處
至於另一條路，一樣地美好
或許更是有迷人之處
因為綠草如茵且罕有人到
然過往旅者
已使這兩條路都有人走過
那天早晨兩條路覆蓋著落葉
一樣都未曾有過足跡
噢！我竟然將第一條路留待未來
雖然心裡明白，路是一條接一條
我懷疑自己是否還會回來
許多，許多年以後
我會感嘆地述說這件事
林中有兩條岔路
我選擇了一條較少人會走的路
這使一切都不同了
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