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The Road Not Taken
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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


Reflecting on this poem I often wonder how many people make a concerted effort to choose the more difficult choices. Nobody truly wants to struggle in life, and if they say otherwise, they're damned liar. ...

Oh just perusing through some magazines and I notice so many ads targeted at many of the adjectives that are associated with being young. I'm always a tad flustered with trying to dissect the meaning behind these ads. The purpose is pretty obvious, you literally have to be deaf not to grasp it. (BUY ME!) I think that the culture I live in has taken a horrible shift in focus however. We idolize our youth and throw away the soul (in a personal sense, soul is directly intertwined with passion, ...

So after rolling through his movie, "Midnight In Paris" a couple times already. Alright, more like five times, I've become a convert over to his films and plan to start amassing a collection of his movies (cult-ish?). Unfortunately he's sparked off a couple of ideas for me revolving around writing a book. Only catch is that I suck at creative writing and would probably have to sell my soul in order to get it published for a profit. (Food doesn't magically appear on my table!)
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As I was listening to music on my ipod, "The Day That Never Comes" by Metallica played. For some superfluous reason I was instantly reminded of a memory from 5 years ago.

I was going through advanced individual training for infantry in the Army at the time, and my platoon was being smoked for some detail that escapes me. Most of the time the old round browns didn't need much of reason to make us do push ups other than the age old adage that what doesn't kill you makes ...