I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to ma

I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to make momentous decisions in life, in which neither choice is clearly right or wrong. Either way you choose, the choice is defensible, but once you make the choice, you can't go back. I decided to go into computers, instead of joining the Air Force and becoming a pilot, for example. Sometimes in life you will meet someone who clearly could have been your soulmate, but you decide to let the acquaintance lapse. I wanted to spend a couple of years in the Peace Corps, learn another language, and help people build power plants in remote locations, but I chose to get married and start making babies instead. And I look back on these kinds of choices and say I made the right choice. But no matter what choice you make, it makes all the difference. Isn't this what the poem is about? Regardless of what the poet says, I think the important thing is to be out there on that road, travelling, and doing your best. It's all too easy to stay in your comfort zone forever rather than travelling. Edit: corrected title. Apologies!