Robert Frost Poem's Influence On My Life

Prior to beginning the masters of occupational therapy program it was as if I was an ancient wanderer in the dark ages, eager to learn new ideas and discover new places not sure what the world would throw at me next. Over the next eight years I found myself at a series of personal crossroads one encounters during life’s journey. Not the crossroad where one sells their soul to the devil for some magical power. It was more of one of those forks in the road, a kin to the Robert Frost Poem, where one path leads to life A and the other leads to life B. Crossroads that impacted my future, shaped who I am and my character, influenced life changes, which led to a transition that will influence me and my family for generations to come.
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in exercise physiology to work, but this was Du Pont. I couldn’t leave a prestigious company like this to go bury myself in debt to pursue a graduate degree. It was an internal strife. I was in constant debate with myself. So much so that my work performance declined. I kept going back to the thought that I was selling myself short. I began to ask myself, how can I encourage my future children to make the best out their opportunities if I don’t pursue a graduate degree? What type of role model do I want to be for my children? These were a powerful thoughts that I navigated alone. These thoughts became so persistent that it ignited the transition I am still immersed in today. So two years ago I found myself at another fork in life’s journey. Both paths lead to a master’s of occupational therapy but I did not know how I was going to pay for a graduate degree. I am fiscally conservative and I found the expense of graduate school daunting. In state tuition was manageable and I had just paid off those student loans. I did not want to start that process over again but at least now I knew that I could handle changing my role back to a full time student. Thus, due to my fear of overwhelming financial debt, enlisting in the military as a reservist was a perfect fit. My father and older brother both served in the US Marine Corps, and they both validated this decision making easier for me to accept …show more content…
That reminds me of another lesson my father taught me. He would say, “Son there are two types of showers, one where you have to shower when you get home from work and another where you take a shower before you go to work.” Thanks Dad, thank you for the showers you took after work and most of all thank you for all your lessons that have led me to where I am