Seventeen years ago, this week, I took my first job in Henderson County——at a little radio station on State Highway 31. I lived in Tyler at the time and thought it would be a temporary move until I landed another job in Smith County.
I guess that's the way a lot of us make our longtime choices. We come to a fork in the road and say "I think I'll walk this way for a while."
One of my favorite poems is the one by Robert Frost where he stopped in the woods for a moment to consider which of two divergent paths he would take. He took the one where the snow was deepest and the woods were the thickest.
The point is, Frost made a choice. It wouldn't have been near as good a poem if he had said, "It looks like a lot of folks have been going this way. At least if I slide off the road, someone will see me and pull me out of the ditch."
So that's what holds us back in life———fear of ditches.
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