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| "What do you think about...? B-a-a-a-a!! |
Our opinion poll, political "shepherds" are flocking to the people for direction.
Guess that makes sense, although...
Henry Ford, when conducting "market research" into the commercial potential of his "new-fangled" automobile, got an interesting answer from consumers to his survey question:
Q: "How can we best improve transportation in the U.S. ?
A: "Breed a faster horse."
At work in credit unions, "gazing at our own navels" is crucial for identifying existing weaknesses and opportunities for greater efficiencies, but rarely will "navel-gazing" be the source of innovations or "new directions"....
Want to find a new path at the credit union, or perhaps in your personal life?
Then stop looking at your feet !
Look up !!
And if you do... Look out !!
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| Are you "a-sheep" at the wheel? |
"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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
7 comments:
This poem by Robert Frost seems to have fooled you also.
Mr. Frost took great delight in the people that misunderstood the point of the poem. Both road were just as fair. It has nothing to do with taking a less traveled road as most people misconstrue, but the choice that makes all the difference in the world. It is the choice which leads to other roads.
Exactly!! Make a choice. Look up stop looking at your feet and waiting for the opinion poll! Make up your own mind.
Like your view, but think the essence is beyond "making a choice". Some folks never do choose in life, never excercise their individual free will - and therefore, "no choice" in fsct becomes a choice - you're familiar with that line of thought.
Ah, the "sheep" in all of us when confronted with difficult forks in the road of life.... After all we are team players aren't we? Let's not rock the boat, let's go along to get along....
What makes "the difference" - "all the difference" - is when folks consciously choose - for good reasons - the road less travelled.
Always most admired those folks who have chosen to refuse to "form a line, hold hands, and await my instructions"...
Frost said in a simple poem what consultants charge big bucks for and never get the results promised. The choice of either road is fine because it will lead to other roads. Frost could have use either road and done well, he never suggested making a choice for good reason. Frost suggest that some day he may come back and do the road not chosen, but he discounts it because of all the new roads (opportunities) opened by making a choice.
Hard to argue with that, but...
"Where do you end up if you take the I-495 Loop around D.C.?
Like the debt ceiling, have you ended up on "The Groudhog Day" Road re-travelled and, re-travelled, and re-tr....
And, around D.C. do we really have a choice?
How about in Alexandria?
I-495 AKA as the Beltway is not where two roads diverge. When it was built in the early 1960's it was known as the Circumferential. You could be correct that it is a metaphor the crazy Groundhog things that go on inside the Beltway. Sorry to advise you that Alexandria is inside the Beltway. Guess that may explain the crazy goings on at Duke Street.
Alexandria is inside the Beltway?
I find that hard to believe of an "independent agency."
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