The road less travelled

I am the type of person who often takes the road less travelled.

I am not conventional. I dun conform to the rigids of society. I dun follow the crowds and masses like sheep. I am no sheep.

SO said that I am a person who takes the road less travelled after observing me for years. He knows I dun rush for the lift when everyone is doing so. Everytime we take a lift, I would let the crowd clear before going into the lift. I don't try to squeeze myself into the lift so I can make it. I would rather take the next one, one which is hopefully less crowed, preferably empty.

The same with buses or subway. If it was too crowded, I would never squeezed my self in one. I would rather wait for the next one. Or the next one or the next one. Whenever it takes.

It is the same with crowds. If I see a crowd somewhere, I dun just join in. I walk the other way.

That is something that SO have gotten used to over the years. SO is someone who is quite the opposite of me. He likes to squeeze into buses, trains and lifts. He dun mind it. In fact, he enjoys it! But I told him, if you are with me, you either follow my road or you go on by your own. And so he has also learnt to take the road less travelled.

SO said that some people think this is a sign of weakness or not being ambitious enough.

I dun care. I simply dun care. Just because I dun followed the usual path does not mean I am weak or that I am not successful. Frankly, I just dun care what other people think or say. People can think those who travelled on the road less travelled as weak or unsuccessful or that they are unable to compete in the world, but these are just labels that people attached onto other people.

Is it important if one is weak or successful? Weak or strong, successful or not, people still die in the end.

Life is like that for me. I took the road less travelled. I stopped working full time 8 years ago and took on free lance jobs while doing part time studies. I learnt to live with less money and lived simply. I learnt to enjoy the pleasure that the road less travelled offers. I do not quite habour the desire that money and status comes with the road well travelled.

Do I have regrets on taking the road less travelled? Well....not really and not always. Only sometimes occasionally, in a blue moon, when I wondered what I could have achieved if I had taken the usual path in my career and the sucess I might have enjoyed.

But I enjoyed my time smelling the flowers, doing my own thing, spending time with my dogs and SO, These are things that money cannot buy. These are things that you dun regret doing when you are on your death bed. After all, no one would said on their death bed, they wished they could have spent more time on work.