Robert Frost created a tale (The Road Not Taken) of
the diverging roads encountered on the travel through life. One is well-worn
and exudes feelings of safety and security. The other is equally inviting,
although “less traveled by” and to take it is to step into the unknown.
Five years ago, after almost 50 years in Hanahan, SC, I took
a road “less traveled by” and came to Franke at Seaside, Mt. Pleasant, SC. It has
turned out well.
Now, I am at another fork in the road of life and once again
will take the road “less traveled by.” I am moving to Moss Creek Plantation,
Hilton Head, SC, to marry and live with the woman, Joyce Wahlrab, I love and
who loves me.
Throughout my life I have come to many forks in the road and
had to choose which road to take. Somehow the choice always worked out and life
has been very good to me. I could remain at Franke; it is the easy, the safe,
the well-worn path, but I would always wonder what if I had taken the other
road?
I am called to recite as did the narrator in The
Road Not Taken:
“And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked 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.”
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