With apologies to the late Robert Frost.
This story has come to mean a lot to me. It is just an analogy for every ex-girlfriend and, even more broadly, every major life choice: Do I take this job, do I move to that city, do I look for some other option? Clearly the lobsters are not together (Apparently they don`t mate for life…It`s true! Ask the unassailable Wikipedia!). They took different paths, and are now different lobsters.
Over this past week, though, I`ve really come to see just how divergent they really are. They were together, but now their separation is no mere break-up: It`s a whole life experience. We all have different job skills, different hobbies, different friends becuase of our choices, and we can never be the people that we were, or the people we imagined ourselves being under different circumstances.
But you know what? We are the people we are now, and we can choose which road to take from here on out. We`ll probably never get the same choices again, but we do get to choose.
And that has made all the difference.