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
The limbo of indecisiveness is an uncomfortable place to be. While sometimes we need to take a beat to let a strong surge of emotion pass, often we become rooted in fear because we don't want to make the wrong choice. Every time I read Frost's poem, I want to ask him if the 'difference' he writes about was good or bad. Moonlight's Embrace suggests expanding the mind beyond what we can see. Our minds are biologically geared to look for patterns and to go back through our mental file cabinet to see if any experience in our past remotely resembles the present. Now while this may have been helpful in avoiding dangerous animals in ancient times, it tends to trip us up in the present. The mind has a preference for negative bias, for labeling things as a threat because it slightly bears a likeness to something that wasn't pleasant in the past. It's not concerned with how this creates prejudice toward a situation or person that is without factual evidence. What happens if I expand my mind and heart beyond the tight confines of fear, making space for what I don't know? I'm thinking I might choose 'expansive' or 'spacious' for my 2020 focus word.
