inspiration

thanks for this, ranjini aunty. it means a lot. and the long talk we had was wonderful! looking forward to the next one.

the mountain and the squirrel

the mountain and the squirrel
had a quarrel,
and the former called the latter
“little prig.”
bun replied,
“you are doubtless very big;
but all sorts of things and weather
must be taken in together
to make up a year
and a sphere.
and i think it no disgrace
to occupy my place.
if i'm not so large as you,
you are not so small as i,
and not half so spry:
i'll not deny you make
a very pretty squirrel track.
talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
if i cannot carry forests on my back,
neither can you crack a nut."

ralph waldo emerson

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

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