Life is But A Choice from Frost "The Road Less Taken"

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Taken from Frost "The Road Less Taken" -

Beginning with the time of birth until the time of death, people have to make choices everyday on how to achieve the goals in their lives. One can imagine life as a long winding road with millions of other roads branching off in many directions. The only problem is that life is too short to explore every single road. In addition, the essence of time will not allow anyone to go back to a road that was passed. Everyone must choose his/her own roads through life regardless of what other people might think. Robert Frost wrote in The Road Not Taken, ' I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference '(Frost 423). By managing ones time efficiently and making clear rational choices, one can achieve a healthy mind, body and spirit.

One important choice in life is having a healthy mind.

The key to achieving a healthy mind is to be open minded. Since the day we are born, we are bombarded with information from television, radios, books, magazines, and what we observe personally. The world is filled with a vast amount of information and each individual is responsible for obtaining, understanding, and making value judgments on this information. One must understand the world around him before he can understand himself. Making the choice of obtaining a college education is extremely important in the world today. There are so many different areas which ro choose. Each individual must find where his/her interest lay whether it be janitorial services or a rocket scientist. However, some people choose not to go to college and still lead a happy, fulfilled life. Everyone is different and that is what makes our world so interesting.

Another important choice in life...