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Essay / Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - 450
Decisions, Decisions, DecisionsPeople make decisions every day, whether they know it or not. Whether it's a big decision like buying the right car, or a small decision like deciding what to eat for lunch. Whatever decision you make, you have to make choices every day. Although it may be a bad choice later, no one has the ability to look into the future. But we must move forward even if it may not be the right choice. Robert Frost explains this well in “The Road Not Taken,” in which he describes a situation in which a person finds himself at a fork in the road and must make a decision about which path to take. In the first part of the poem Frost compares and contrasts the two roads: and I looked one as far as I could to where it curved in the undergrowth; then I took the other, just as fair, and perhaps having the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted to bear; though as for that, the passage there had carried them really in much the same way, and both that morning lay equally in the leaves, no step had trodden the dark. This part of the poem ...