Lessons from Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

​You and only you are responsible for your life choices.

Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets. Although I love many of his poems, my favorite is "The Road Not Taken."

The Road Not Taken is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval.

The Road Not Taken

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.

What Are The Lessons?
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• Don't be afraid of being different; be afraid of being the same as everyone else.
• Life is a matter of choice. Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made.
• Everyone has a different sense of happiness. Follow your own path, not someone else's.
• Ignore the noise and follow your own path.
• Don't rush the process. Allow yourself to grow at your own pace. Stop comparing your life to what other people are achieving.

Today I will do what others won't,
so tomorrow I can do what others can't.