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.

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a poem about a traveler who is walking in the woods and has come upon two roads. The traveler cannot travel both roads and thus must make a decision which one to walk. He evaluates both roads and chooses the road less traveled realizing that he cannot back. The poem ends by the traveler stating that his choosing the road less traveled has made all the difference.

First time I read this poem during my secondary school. That time didn't understand deeply, just simply read for exam only. After that I had forgotten.

After that, I read Rich Dad Poor Dad. The author, Robert Kiyosaki, used that poem at the beginning of his book. That time I was reading the Chinese version. But when I read that poem, such like I have read it before. When I read the English version, then I just knew that this poem before.

And now, before enter the real world, I'm almost facing the same situation like the travel of the poem. Different choice, different result.

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

Will I going to listen my parents advice or choose my own way? I think I have my authority to make the decision myself.