{"id":234,"date":"2006-12-18T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=234"},"modified":"2006-12-18T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:18:09","slug":"one-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"one choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my 3-yr anniversary of employment at Westside is coming up in 54 days. i&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about what my life would be like if (instead of beginning work here) i chose to continue on to a university? to study business like my mom wanted me to and had always planned. theoretically i would be a senior in college, probably in a sorority, about to graduate next semester and soon be tossed into the life of a working-woman. so basically my life would be nothing like it is presently. in reality, i am working in my dream job with people i love, have life-long friends, have grown in SO much in areas i never would have imagined. so this post has nothing to do with regrets but how crazy is it that just ONE choice can completely change one&#8217;s course in life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>take a step back and with fresh eyes, observe the life you&#8217;ve lived so far. just some questions between friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what does the road look like?<\/li>\n<li>how would your life be different if you took a different road? better&#8230; worse?<\/li>\n<li>how do you know for sure?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Road Not Taken<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Robert Frost<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And sorry I could not travel both<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And be one traveler, long I stood<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And looked down one as far as I could<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then took the other, as just as fair,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And having perhaps the better claim,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Because it was grassy and wanted wear;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Though as for that the passing there<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Had worn them really about the same,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And both that morning equally lay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In leaves no step had trodden black.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oh, I kept the first for another day!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yet knowing how way leads on to way,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I doubted if I should ever come back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I shall be telling this with a sigh<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I took the one less traveled by,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And that has made all the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Explanation_and_interpretations\" name=\"Explanation_and_interpretations\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my 3-yr anniversary of employment at Westside is coming up in 54 days. i&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about what my life would be like if (instead of beginning work here) i chose to continue on to a university? to study business like my mom wanted me to and had always planned. theoretically i&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">one choice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,45,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-personal-growth","category-what-the","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}