The Road not Taken

While I was writing my previous entry—yes, just a few minutes ago—I remembered “The Road not taken,” written by Robert Frost, because the facts of questioning your current life and thinking constantly about your decisions made are really connected to this poem.

First of all, I am leaving you this picture with the poem just to make easier for you the understanding of my entry (and because the landscape shows clearly the title of it).

This poem, as you should already know, is about the decisions made during our lives, but not about the decisions we made thinking a lot beforehand. Instead of that, this poem is about the ones we made without knowing what could happen later. The person in the poem says clearly that both roads were alike; then, he looked at one for a long time trying to discover the future he would have if he took that one; but AS JUST AS FAIR, he chose the other road without really knowing.

The idea of the poem is showing that human beings do not make their decisions in a deliberate, planned, or intentional way. No, they make them almost by accident—maybe not all the time. Nevertheless, the importance here is to be victorious in spite of this casuality. People do not choose difficult roads because they are “heroes,” but they can easily become one of those if they are able to show heroic courage when they are already walking in the road chosen. And this is what makes the difference: becoming the heroe of their own decisions. Are you a heroe, then?

Thanks for reading! You have one day left to make comments, so it would be interesting to share some ideas since we talked about this poem two days ago and in a very quickly way. Maybe you understood something really different from what I told you here.

Best,

Javiera Francisca Ramírez Cornejo :)