Most people have read “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost. The first time I studied the poem I thought, I too wanted to take a path less trodden. Interpreting the piece again as an adult it takes on a new meaning. Throughout life there are multiple paths that you are guided to. It’s your preference as to which one you think is fitting. The road taken is a personal choice, it should not be about which one is better. It’s about the right passage for the individual.
We decide that the road less traveled is the one we want to take. We break the conformity of staying in one place for the excitement of new destinations and people. What if all the trails regardless of being safe or not lead to the same places, people, lessons and realizations in the end? Either pathway is probably riddled with sacrifices. We can chose different directions and take the one that is less or more trekked but that does not exempt us from suffering heartaches or making mistakes along the way. We have no alternative but to evolve despite taking a more conventional path. Because change and growth are inevitable. What if the road that is less taken only means that you picked a longer more arduous route to the same destination? We can look back and ponder our journey but ultimately we are exactly where we should be.
The choices we make in life are our own decision and cannot be blamed on others. The directions and people we are led to are part of the synchronicity and destiny of our story. We have a natural affinity to certain places and individuals that are supposed to be in our lives despite our route. The trajectory of life is not a straight line. There are usually twists and turns. The journey can often be a spiral where we loop back around to rediscover things more closely, giving us a fresh perspective on our past. Also making us realize that what we were wandering away from in the first place was supposed to be there the whole time.
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Previously Published on Medium.
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