The Road Not Taken Essay
The Choice that I have to Live With
Is this the right road to take? Each road we take is a personal decision, a decision we will have to live with for the rest of our lives. There are many choices in life that have to be made on a personal basis, there is only one person that can make those choices, and that person is the one who has to look at themselves in the mirror daily. “If you don’t make each decision carefully, you never know where you’ll end up. That’s an important lesson we should learn sometime.” (Calvin and Hobbes) It’s not always about being in the center of the group or being like everyone else. When it comes right down to it, the choices we make will ultimately affect the outcomes that the next generation will inherit. Whatever …show more content…
Knowing that this decision will be a life changing one, the narrator stands and considers the one in front of him. We have all been in that situation at one time or another. As the author is looking ahead, he is truly wanting to travel down both roads, as he quotes, “And sorry I could not travel both” (line 2). Everyone in life wants to be able to do more than one thing at a time, but there has to be a choice made. Once that choice is made, we will be responsible for everything we do from then on. But as the author stands looking at the roads in front of him, he is contemplating the road to choose. The road that he is looking at is long, as he gives the description, “looked down one as far as I could,” (4) then Frost continues giving his description of this road “to where it bent in the undergrowth.” (5) Visualizing that he could see no more because of a bend in the view. This is resembling a path of life that goes on and on and suddenly turns without a view of the future. This makes the writer feel that there is something not certain about this path and it is making him feel uncomfortable about that choice. Although we can never see very far in our walk, for the future is uncertain, there is always a sense of what could happen. This is where we need to follow internal
Is this the right road to take? Each road we take is a personal decision, a decision we will have to live with for the rest of our lives. There are many choices in life that have to be made on a personal basis, there is only one person that can make those choices, and that person is the one who has to look at themselves in the mirror daily. “If you don’t make each decision carefully, you never know where you’ll end up. That’s an important lesson we should learn sometime.” (Calvin and Hobbes) It’s not always about being in the center of the group or being like everyone else. When it comes right down to it, the choices we make will ultimately affect the outcomes that the next generation will inherit. Whatever …show more content…
Knowing that this decision will be a life changing one, the narrator stands and considers the one in front of him. We have all been in that situation at one time or another. As the author is looking ahead, he is truly wanting to travel down both roads, as he quotes, “And sorry I could not travel both” (line 2). Everyone in life wants to be able to do more than one thing at a time, but there has to be a choice made. Once that choice is made, we will be responsible for everything we do from then on. But as the author stands looking at the roads in front of him, he is contemplating the road to choose. The road that he is looking at is long, as he gives the description, “looked down one as far as I could,” (4) then Frost continues giving his description of this road “to where it bent in the undergrowth.” (5) Visualizing that he could see no more because of a bend in the view. This is resembling a path of life that goes on and on and suddenly turns without a view of the future. This makes the writer feel that there is something not certain about this path and it is making him feel uncomfortable about that choice. Although we can never see very far in our walk, for the future is uncertain, there is always a sense of what could happen. This is where we need to follow internal