And re-read the last two lines of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.  So many have taken this piece to be their driving force and guide through life because it seems to glorify taking the less popular path when there’s a decision to be made, but just for the heck of it, read it with a sarcastic / regretful tone once. 

The poem first describes the clearings as evenly worn and evenly difficult, but at the end refers to one as less traveled.  Look at the title, to most it is regarding the path many don’t take but the hiker boldly does.  I see it as a reference to a man far along in his life looking back on the fact that we can only take one path, and he constantly wonders “what if” about the road he chose not to take. 

I’m not telling you what to believe but give this idea a chance.  Maybe Frost was saying soooooo much more with his sense of lost opportunities than he ever could with a message of “choose the untraveled road.”