To Be Alive

[mandysee_mandydo]

I just went for one of the most exhilarating walks I've had in a long time. Today was such a beautiful day and I was feeling pretty blissful after the April Fool's service and getting to be myself today that I just couldn't stay inside. I needed to get out, even if I was still all dressed up from fellowship.

While at times I may be annoyed that the Campton side of our road is unmaintained this winter, this time I was thrilled. There was no one on the road: no drivers, no snowmobilers, no hikers/walkers. It was just before sunset and I was able to enjoy the crisp air, walking down a road surrounded by nothing but national forest for miles and no sound but those of the birds, the running water and the snow crunching with each step I took into the wilderness. It was nice to just be out there alone, feeling happy and relaxed, taking in nature and for once just feeling truly alive.

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[zeppelinmage.livejournal.com]

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.

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Only one of my all-time favorite poems. :)