Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

Why did I decide to take the road more or less traveled by? In Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not taken, he describes himself coming to a diverging path. I have read this particular poem time and time again and always come to the same conclusion. Frost’s intent was to show that people make choices, whether it’s the right or wrong one it’s essentially up to interpretation since we frame our own pasts and futures. In my interpretation of the poem, we do choose the paths we travel down but generally are left to wonder what could’ve been. Through my personal experience, I have come to the crossroads and chosen the path that most benefits me and my ambitions. In my household, I am one of 7. Out of my proximate family, I am one of eighteen. But out of all

My family consists of Latin and Hispanic origins, and statistically Hispanic races remain on the lower end of the college attendance and completion spectrum. That's not to say that generally there hasn’t been a dip in the high school dropout rates over the years for my races, but even still Hispanics and Latinos stay below other races. These general statistics have proven to hit close to home in my family. My mother did not complete high school because she had me and choose to find work rather than to continue school. And my father, who didn’t get past an elementary-level education, came to the United States from Nicaragua to live a more suitable life. Even though both my parents and the majority of my family didn’t choose my path, I still respect and believe that their choices have allowed them to live decent lives thus far. However, they also serve as a constant reminder that sometimes the life they choose isn’t the most conventional. My family members are fully aware of their hardships and how their fates could’ve been different if they had taken the path of higher education. But all they are left to do is to wonder what could’ve been. In Frost’s poem, he says that the road he took was “..just as fair..”