Lessons from Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

5/27/2019

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?

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.