Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Kevin's last work day

I also had my final day of work today.  It ended quite a bit later than Nancy's, simply by the luck (or unluck) of our schedules.  It is a strange feeling to leave a place for the final time. It feels like you are leaving things unfinished, especially at the job we just left.  I know that I have done all that I can do and now someone else has to get used to it and deal with it.  My mantra for the past few weeks has been soon it will be someone else's problem.  And today, it is.  Never have I been so relieved for a job to finish and never will I miss a job so much (or at least certain aspects of a job).
Tomorrow we will set out to somewhere new, I want to believe that it will be a more than physical journey, but one that will force that lazy mind of mine into gear.  I don't know that this will be so.  For now though, I will be happy to be going places.
It is funny that Nancy has posted The Road Less Traveled.  I wonder if we are taking that road, or a more well traveled one than we realize.  It sounds pretty well traveled judging from the talk from my coworkers today.  Whatever may be, I guess we will find out shortly.

Nostalgia and Jitterbugs

Well tomorrow Kevin and I will be starting a new journey. It was strange finishing work today, it was almost all surreal. After working so hard for a year, it is strange how things end so suddenly and everything just moves on. But as they say, when someone closes a door someone always opens a window.
We will be exploring southern Taiwan until the 8th of March. Taiwan is such a tiny little island, and it feels so natural being here. Taiwan is such a safe country, sometimes it feels much safer than Canada!

When leaving Taiwan I feel excitement and fear because I want to see the new road ahead, but a part of me wants to stay and claim a piece of me in this place.
Here is a poem that I would like to share
                                              The Road not Taken by Robert Frost:

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;        5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,        10
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.        15
 
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.  
Let us not be afraid to try something new, and if we get the chance, we must take it! Let us step into our dreams and live them in the way that we feel we should.