The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost wrote a poem by this name and it ends with the following verse:

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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This poem came to mind this morning as I remembered that yesterday was the first day of Lent and the beginning of the pilgrimage towards the horror of Good Friday and the surpassing joy of Easter as contrasted with Mardi Gras the evening before. The crowds in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro were enormous while those attending Ash Wednesday services were much smaller and considerably more restrained. Roads that start next to each other can have vastly different destinations. The one less traveled makes all the difference.