Why is the pathway to truth not often chosen? We grew up with a sense of curiosity, we want to know as much as possible. Do we stop and turn around once we discover our curiosity may cause pain and leave lasting scars? We stop and ask ourselves is this the right path for us? We ask ourselves is all this pain worth the reward of truth? The Wayfarer innocently chooses the path of truth and starts to experience how treacherous the struggle for truth will be; then he comes to accept the path he has chosen as the only option.
We begin life young and innocent, we make choices without much life experience, so we do not always understand those choices, but as we gain more knowledge and experience we analysis the paths and decisions we chose. I began a path I believed I was destined for. In all my innocence, I thought I had everything
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We also learn that we choose our own paths. The path is overgrown and thick with weeds making the journey difficult, then the wayfarer sees the knives attached to every weed. In The Wayfarer, the weeds that transform into knives can mean many different obstacles in our lives. The path to truth will leave scars from acquiring knowledge and experience. Each weed is important in itself, each knife leave a lasting mark upon our lives as we continue seeking the truth. As we discover ourselves and the world around us.
I have made many mistakes, but I have not let any of them hold me back. I have wandered off the trail and found my way back and have continued down a path of knowledge and understanding. The mistakes and regrets that haunt us are just reminders of how to make a better decision next time. There maybe obstacles to the truth, but we can withstand
What I had wanted as a child, what I thought would have gotten, is all outside my grasp. That house I wanted? Maybe a bit smaller…and about that car, I’ll take a Honda Civic. I am now forced into the dilemma of choosing which dreams to fulfill. Even then none of them might come to be. I still seek to attain my goals however, but with all due diligence will I attain half-success. What I found didn’t fit with what I sought to be. What I was promised and what I believed will not come to be. I was once jubilant over the inevitability of adulthood, but now, all I seek is the impossibility of another
Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” He questioned the very nature of why things were the way they were, while never settling for simple, mundane answers. Socrates would rather die searching for the truth than live accepting what he considered a blatant lie. I like to think of myself the same way. I too would rather examine the wonders of life rather than accept what I am just told. The truth is some can’t handle the truth. I on the other hand welcome it with earnest anticipation and fervent enthusiasm.
Unfortunately life has many hurdles and roads unturned. I do not feel we should regret the mistakes we have made in our past. Or else, we may be too hesitant to make correct choices in our future.
This desire to make sense of something has manifested itself in many ways, in my decision
So in conclusion, the road to self-discovery was an achievement that not all could reach. The open-mindness and ability to try new things opened the door for Emily and Mr. Webb to the perception of the meaning of life. They learned their self-discovery lessons because there was no one to restrain them. In a word, they were luckier than that of Willy and Linda because their road to discovery was easier and shorter. But Willy and Linda were not unlucky. There were many open opportunities that they could have seen their wrongs and what was right. Yet they were unable to because their character, one of stubbornness and blindness, did not allow them to see these open windows. The window which opportunity lies is always open, our minds must be trained in order to perceive it and gain deliverance from this existence.
After dissecting the one road, the speaker takes the other path without putting as much time investigating it. He makes so...
There are many ways in which a goal or an ideal may influence an individual’s life. It could be the mere feeling of accomplishment, and the outcome of meaning to one’s life, or simply the goals may conclude the sensation of change and retain of wisdom that appeal to individuals. Such an existence can cause the compulsion of never feeling the desire to end the journey and forever aspiring towards new goals. That is what happened to the speaker in the poem “The Layers” written by Stanley Kunitz. In an infinite journey the speaker continues to discover new paths as he looks back on his past, learning from his mistakes, it grants him the st...
In the last stanza the traveler sensed that he may be sharing his decision with someone with possible regret about how he came to a fork in the road in the woods and made a decision that affected the rest of his life. Because of his decision his life is what it has become. Unfortunately, we must live with the decisions that we make in life, and many times we are not able to change them.
The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual. The speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he "doubted if I should ever come back.
realise that the path we had chosen was the wrong one, and even though I
Everyone makes mistakes, yet even the smallest of mistakes can change the entire course of history given a time machine and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Learn to cherish the life on this Earth, and don’t let poor choices dictate the future ahead. Making the right decision is key to success, and only we can choose what successes we want to
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will” (Shakespeare). In life we all have a route that we are supposed to follow to achieve our goal. Our attitude towards the path to achieve that goal is what will shape our ends. Our reactions to our obstacles we face are what are going to set us through the path. Shakespeare was trying to have an overall theme throughout his tragedies, to get through obstacles to keep continuing on the path to our overall achievement in life.
The first of said truths demonstrates the illusion of peace and contentedness provided to everyone by suffering, wherein one becomes unable to proceed with their personal legend. In The Alchemist, the author writes: “Here I am, between my flock and my treasure, the boy thought. He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have” (Coelho 28). Santiago’s inability to commence his journey illustrates how one may become complacent if one’s desires are not satisfied. This complacency, evident with the crystal merchant who says: “I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living” (Coelho 57) proves that the obsession with the spiritual world is an individual’s leading cause of their inability to utilize gained knowledge in order to pursue their personal legend. Furthermore, in order to progress, one must act rather than obsess over how said action will turn out. In Siddhartha, Siddhartha leaves the realm of the spiritual world with the ascetics in search of the unforgiving physical world in lieu of his uncertainty of the outcome. Although this decision does not ultimately lead to Siddhartha’s enlightenment, it allows him to grasp a realm previously foreign to him. In like manner, one can plainly understand that the making of decisions is a necessary part of an individual’s journey because, notwithstanding to the consequences, one will acquire wisdom from every
Choices are never easy, facing hundreds upon thousands of them in our lifetime, man has to make decisions based upon these choices. Some decisions are clear while others are sometimes not clear and more difficult to make. The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a prime example of these choices in life. This poem is a first person narrative that is seen by most people as being told by Frost. The poem opens up with the narrator encountering a point in the woods that has a trail diverge into two separate paths. In the poem Frost presents the idea of man facing the difficult predilection of a moment and a lifetime. I believe this idea in the poem is embodied in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the decision to select the road not taken.