An appropriate poem for the mindset of one of our times great activist for democracy. 21 years have passed since she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggles, and now, finally, she is able to leave her country for her peace prize lecture, and still be able to travel home without the fear of forced excile, which the military regime wants.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been and is an admirable and inspiring fighter for openness, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and democracy through non-violence, despite that she would have every right to be angry of everything the military regime has taken from her and her people.
Now that she's finally released from her house arrest, and has been elected to parliament, she can look back on the hard and less traveled road she chose, and see what both her people and the rest of the world sees, that the choice she made in 1988 has made the whole little difference so far. The road is still long, perilious and hard, but every step made is one less to take.. An impressive person in the struggle for democracy.. A woman in a worldformat.. I can only take a bow for her in utter admiration..
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.”
― Robert Frost
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