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Robert Frost was a huge risk-taker. Instead of taking the more traveled path, he took the slightly overgrown one. Phew! Slow down, Rob; we can't keep up with you!
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- 00:00
know what I missed
- 00:00
The Road Not Taken a la Shmoop.
- 00:02
I'm always second guessing my choices.
- 00:05
I almost called this poem "The Road Taken."
- 00:08
Then I started obsessing over all the other titles I could have picked.
Full Transcript
- 00:12
Would I regret not going with something grittier like "That one time I wore new
- 00:16
shoes on a walk and got really bad blisters" I guess the grass is always
- 00:20
greener on the other path.
- 00:22
Or is it brownish yellowish Argh this is so hard My worst case of indecision
- 00:27
happened when I was going for a walk in a forest and I came to
- 00:31
a fork in the road.
- 00:33
I stepped over it and there were two pathways in front of me.
- 00:37
My GPS didn't work way out here in the boonies so I didn't have any
- 00:42
guidance to tell me which route to take.
- 00:44
Candidate A was a fine looking specimen with appealing scenery and no visible predators.
- 00:49
Candidate B looked pretty great too and it seemed wilder and overgrown like it hadnt
- 00:53
been landscaped for a while.
- 00:55
But now that I looked closer Road A also seemed to be untamed by the
- 00:59
sneakers of man.
- 01:01
Or at least I couldnt see too many Cheetos wrappers on the ground.
- 01:05
I decided to settle this in a mature reasonable manner.
- 01:09
I could always come back another time and take Road A.
- 01:12
Anytime I wanted to.
- 01:14
Although I wasnt really doing much walking now that I had my Fat-burnatron 2000.
- 01:18
and the forecast was calling for rain and my fantasy football league was in full swing.
- 01:23
So I didnt really have time for another relationship.
- 01:26
And it's not like I was going to hurt the roads feelings or anything Oh well.
- 01:30
What's done is done.
- 01:32
And this road is great We've had some really good times together.
- 01:36
But I can't help thinking about that other road.
- 01:39
I know someday I'll be sitting in my armchair boring my kids with What Ifs
- 01:44
What if I had taken that first road Maybe I would have discovered a doorway
- 01:48
to another dimension or a new species of feral guinea pig I guess I'll never NOTE end of file
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