MOMENTS of a brand new year

Hi all. This is my first post for the brand new year. Pastor said that how we start will determine how we finish, so I thought it'll be good to start off with a brand new writing. And I entitled this one "MOMENTS". It's kind of a random thought piece that I just wrote. This is out to all you singles out there. You rock!

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MOMENTS

The human history is marked by MOMENTS. Moments of victory, moments of defeat; Moments of joy, moments of pain; Moments of laughter, moments of tears; Moments of love and moments of hate. Our lifetime is defined by these specific moments. Isn't it true that we don't really remember every single thing in our life, but specific moments that propel us up to the highest heavens, or drop us down to the lowest pits.

Today, I would dare make a bold statement to anyone reading this that the most significant moment in our lifetime is the moment we decide to love or not to love.

It is in that moment of decision that we change the course of our journey, the subsequent decisions we make, the attitudes we put on and the actions we take. When we make the decision to love someone, that sets us on a road of discovery. A road that many have walked in joy and happiness. A road that many have crawled in pain and sadness.

A journey you could call it. A journey pathed with risks and rewards, where every decision you make will have a corresponding reaction. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Will the other like you? Will the other cast you to the ground? Will the end of this journey be rewarded with joy and laughter? Or will the end of this journey be marked by pain and tears?

Yet, an interesting journey it is. A journey of discovery, not so much of your significant other, but a journey of self-discovery. It is when we set out on this journey to discover others that we see more of ourself, where your actions are directly reflecting your attitudes.

This reminds me of a poem I read years ago that I would reflect here:

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

by Robert Frost

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.

The road less traveled by could very well be the road that makes all the difference:

And shall we take this road and continue this journey?

I would say yes to the moment I believe

That from the Almighty One

A true love I would receive

I would say yes to the dream I had

Where true love is real

In a place we truely shared

Finally,

I would say yes to the woman I love
The one road I would take
Down the path with you my dove