"When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It"

Which Way Will You Choose? (click to enlarge)

Those words so famously said (but he was not the first to say it*) by the late, great baseball legend Yogi Berra.

But which fork do you take?  Does danger lurk if you make the wrong decision?  Is one leg of the fork better than the other?  Do you go left, right or turn around and go from where you came out of caution?  Is the tree a clue?  Do its branches tell you something if only you could understand?  Is there a better or right decision?  What to do?

Of course, the answer was clearly written by Robert Frost when he wrote his 1915 poem, "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.

So there is your answer!  It sounds like many of the times in our lives when we come to a crossroad, doesn't it?  Which way do we go?

*...this same statement was used as part of a joke that was printed in several U.S. newspapers such as the “Fort Gibson New Era” of Gibson, Oklahoma and the “Correctionville News” of Correctionville, Iowa...in 1913. The humor was based on wordplay and referenced the additional meaning of ‘fork’ as a dining utensil." according to the quoteinvestigator.com website.

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