"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
[Robert Frost] 

I once read this quote and thought it means that one must take the path which is unseen, difficult and undiscovered. And it felt right to me at that time. It felt adventurous, perfect and challenging. And now when I think about it it.. I was wrong. Utterly wrong. I misunderstood this quote completely.

This quote was never about choosing any path. Nor it was about two roads that were diverged in a wood. It was about something much much deeper. Something no one ever tried to get into. 

It was about LETTING GO.

Sometimes in life you start a journey because it feels right. After a while, you are at a crossroads and you choose one path instead of the other, and the journey continues, you keep enjoying it. But the story doesn't just end there. After choosing that path, there comes another path, then another, then another and now you are just moving from one crossroad to another without even realising how far you've come.

Just because the journey felt so good, you didn't even bother try to stop. And now when you realize that you need to come back, the journey of crossroads will start again. So, you abandon the journey and try to find a way back.  But this time, you are not back to where you started, but you are somewhere else now.

This is the ultimate dilemma of life.

You never come back to where you started. You never find peace. You never even actually let go of anything. You might think that you've let go, but in reality you've absorbed that journey inside of you.

"You can never run away from what's inside of you."

I used to believe that it's easy to to not care, to not think about something you want to let go off. But the thing is, it never leaves you. I becomes YOU. You never get away from your own self. You just learn to accept it the way it is. And that is your salvation. That is your peace. 

To accept that it's not that you want to run away or let go of that thing. It is so that you could accept who you are, and in turn accept the parts of yourself you've been trying to get rid of...

But you know, there's a funny saying, which is:

"To resolve a problem, first you need to accept that it even exists." 

Maybe the journey was never about coming back to where we started. It was about coming back to another starting line. To start again, to start anew. And most importantly, start with YOURSELF.

Only then you can find peace within yourself. Or maybe not. Who am I to say?