The Path Less Travelled

"The Path Less Travelled"

Your probably wondering why this is written at the top of the homepage on my website. Well it is a shortened version of my favourite quote which is actually at the end of a Robert Frost poem.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference"

I first heard this quote at a high school assembly, at which we had an ex navy seal come to talk to us about his journey and give us some advice for leaving school and entering into the world. It didn't really grab me at the time or cause any major changes. But it has always been there. This probably validated my decision to chase slopestyle instead of a traditional university path after school.

During my later years of school, I could see that doing well in school was going to be beneficial to my life, but the further I went with my riding journey, the less value I was seeing in my studies. To be honest, it was a quiet battle I had with myself for about 2 years. Make riding my job, or fall in line and go to university. I would often have bus drives where I would change my mind 3-4 times in regards to which path I wanted to take.

So what made me choose riding? I knew both paths would require work. I think I looked at both as mountains to climb and thought, which one would be more epic? Which one is going to have a better view? When thinking about my life going through university, I could see myself wondering what life would be like if I chose riding. But I didn't have that feeling the other way around.

"The Path Less Travelled" represents the point of decision. The point where you either leave your childhood dreams at the door and continue, or sprint down some fresh tracks ready for an adventure. Or at least that's how I see it.

I'm still on that adventure. With little material success to show for it, but if I look deeper inside myself I know that the adventure is the prize. Yes I still have goals, and a lot of work to do to achieve them, but feeling like I've already won, and treating the rest as a bonus, is working for me so far.