The woods and me..

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep;


But I have promises to keep

and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep”

As I lay all alone in my new Paying Guest accommodation today, these lines from my school poem comes to my mind. The poet, most probably was Robert Frost (corrections are always welcomed). I try to decipher the poet’s message in these lines and analyze how they suit to my life. It might appear a little insane, but who does sane things after being bored continuously, for like a week. The meaning that I chose to accept was as follows:

“The woods here refer to the woods which would be used when I fall asleep forever with no intention of waking up. They are lovely because they help me go to sleep, they are dark because I see nothing in them except peace and solace and they are deep, so deep that I have no chance of rising high enough to come back to the world. By promises, I infer, the promises which, I have at some point of time made to myself, my parents, friends, siblings and all other people. The miles indicate towards the way and path I have to travel to accomplish those promises and dreams before I finally decide to surrender myself to the woods”.

Well, my inspiration for even thinking of something like this is the movie “The Blind Side”. In the movie, Michael, interprets the poem “into the valley of death rode the six hundred” in such a nice manner that I decided to imitate him. His interpretation was somewhat like this:

“Courages are hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake. But you are not supposed to question the dots or coach or your teachers, because they make the rules. Maybe they know the best, maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn’t at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up before joining up with their sire? I mean valley of death, is a pretty salty stuff. That’s why courage is tricky. Did you always do what you are told to do.? Sometimes, you might not even know why you are doing something. I mean, any folk can have courage, but honor! That’s the real reason why you need to do something or you don’t. It’s all who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you will have both honor and courage and that is pretty good. I think that is what the writer was saying. You should hope for courage and pray for honor and maybe hoping that the people telling you what to do have some too.”


P.S: I was supposed to post it in the first week of may, but since I work now and have a busy schedule it got delayed.