Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

People make decisions every single day, even if they know it or not. Whether it is an important decision as in buying the right car, or a little decision as in deciding what to eat for lunch. No matter what the decision maybe, one has to make choices everyday. Although it may be the wrong choice later on, no one has the ability to look into the future. But one must move on even though it may not be the right choice. Robert Frost explains this well in “The Road Not Taken”, in which he describes a situation where a person is at a fork in the road, and has to make a decision on which path to take.

In the first part of the poem Frost compares and contrasts the two roads:

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.

This part of the poem ...

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