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My dear
Thanks for your mail and all the wonderful blessings and wishes you sent my way.
With these I find myself better equipped to walk ahead towards my next jubilee in 2023!!
Sorry for the uncharacteristic delay in replying to your mail. Many mails were pouring in and some of the jubilee celebrations were not complete.
That happened yesterday with a family gathering at Xavier’s and a thanksgiving prayer, festive ceremony and lunch for the family with the father’s of the college community. One of the fathers here together with some family members secretly prepared a video on me that really rocked!! Photographs from the past, video-taped wishes and other embarrassing things. I was really moved.
I suppose on jubilees and funerals it is legitimate to say wonderful things about people. One should do this at other times as well.
There will be another all-Jesuit celebration in December but that is a long way off.
Now that the celebration dust has settled, I am getting down to answer all those beautiful and caring mails I received.
Here is an old and familiar quote for you….
With so many people aware of the less travelled road and eager to adventure on it,
I think that this particular road is gradually turning out to be the more travelled road…
and the old more travelled road will soon become the less travelled road…
Deciding which road to finally take gets pretty complicated because of this.
Life has its cycles… much like fashion, I guess… and one must make choices about what to wear and where to go.
Over the years, with my apologies to Frost and others like him, I have noticed that I am one of those who prefer to take the more travelled road…
It is time tested and safer for sure. That might make it a bit routine and boring.
However, with all the travels on this road that I have been doing over the years, I do not find it boring at all.
I look for and keep discovering lots of new and wonderful and exciting things as I wander my way along it….
No monotony or routine in my counselling and my SSL and other interesting activities I am involved in here!
No monotony in all the relationships I have with the nicest people in the world…
And more excitement in all the new people and new things coming my way as this road unravels ahead of me.
I am sure this will continue for many more years.
Of course, now and then, when suitably motivated and inspired, I shall take a walk on the supposedly less travelled road.
And I shall also enjoy the excitement and adventure that it will add to my life!
Some days I meet up with you again on your own more or less travelled road…and it is nice to walk some of the way with you.
You show me new things and help me enjoy them.
I show you the unnoticed in old things, perhaps, and some new learning happens for both of us.
And then we wander off again on our own separate roads…until another possible meeting-up…
We have already been doing that occasionally… and I quite enjoy the happy wanderings with you… look forward to them too!
Take care. More wonders on your own road… and exciting travel times to you.
Lots of love, Terry