The poem is contradictory about that. Both appear equally travelled. The one chosen has a grassy patch up ahead. Its a great image of starting out on a journey

The poem is contradictory about that. Both appear equally travelled. The one chosen has a grassy patch up ahead. Its a great image of starting out on a journey/project and just seeing the first little bit of the path. There is no knowledge of the condition of the rest of the path. The 'perfectly logical' character of logical puzzles would stand in that fork forever but we because of intuition or impulse make a choice which we later imbue with meaning. I like this sentence from the article: "The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism; it’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives."