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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 1980245, member: 37"] Dang it! My whole friggen life was crystallized by that poem only to realize from you that the crystallization was defined by a misinterpretation. The path I chose in my life was based on being dumb not special. I feel like the kid in the "Summer of 42" who was told by his friend that he was rubbing the girl's shoulder and not her breast while they were at the movies. So that leaves me with a dilemma. Do I start agreeing with the majority of chuckleheads in this forum given that I'm also a chucklehead or do I stick with my maverick approach? Or do I do what most of us do and find a rationalization for why I misinterpreted it? I did read it when I was a naive kid who took Frost at his word when he declared he "travelled the less traveled path" and ignored the evidence preceding that statement. The cynical bastard that I've become partly as a result of misinterpreting that poem would never have interpreted it incorrectly if I had that developed cynicism when I read it. So the final two questions are how much did my misinterpretation of that poem factor in the development of my maverick behavior? And if I interpreted it correctly when I read it would I have developed this maverick behavior? I guess the answer is that some pathways do influence outcomes even if they are misunderstood. In other words, like most of us I'll embrace my stupidity and put it on a pedestal. [/QUOTE]