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

  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;

 

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,

 

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.

 

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.

When you look at Zimbabwe and the disastrous path we have traveled these last 41 years, one cannot help but conclude that we are indeed insane because we have seen all the sign telling us this will lead us to ruin and still we have insisted in traveling down this path! The history of others dated back to the Greeks pointed the way to good governance and we chose to ignore history. Our own experience has shown we were on the wrong track and we have ignored that too. 

Often, nations get the government they deserve, that is certainly true of Zimbabwe. We are masters of our own destiny but that does not mean we know where we are going. We have chosen not to learn and so have blundered from pillar to post and, until we learn, we will continue down this ruinous path!

The world will help us get out of the mess but first we must show the world that we are now serious about getting out of the mess by showing them that we have learned from history and our own mistakes! Repeating the same mistakes proves we have learned nothing!