My Way

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-

At this point in time, I imagine that I am Robert Frost when he was standing in the woods where the road diverged into 2, and while deciding which road to take he wrote a poem.

The latest issue in my life is deciding on the hospitals to apply for my housemanship. Everybody asks the same question,
"Do you want to go to Sabah or Sarawak?"

I had decided some time ago to apply some place near home, but personally I have no objections going to Borneo. It will be a challenge, to start a new life away from home, away from my parents.

I do not know if there is a difference staying in KL. Work exposure and workload should be the same. I am still going to be a houseman for 2 years. I still want to be a paediatrician at the end of the day.

So now I am standing at the diverging road, wondering if I should stay or go. If I decide to go, all I have to do is to tell the authorities during my interview, and I'll be on my way.

Do I follow Frost in taking the road less traveled by? Knowing how way leads to way, if I go, will I ever come back?