There are many choices you need to make on a daily basis to simply get through the day. Lifestyle choices, however, are more important and have a lasting effect on the individual. They are less frequent but have a greater impact on a person's life. Writer Robert Frost chose to use the poem “The Road not Taken” to show how one's decisions can change the outcome of one's life. Frost used the details of his choice of path, his inability to reverse his choice, the consequences of his judgment, along with the external factors that influenced his judgments to express to readers how life decisions make a difference, all by writing a poem. This poem is one of many written by Frost in 1916 and is commonly used in high school writing lessons. It has been written frequently and often analyzed because of the connection people feel with poetry for the reason that everyone has to make life choices. Reading the poem touches a wide variety of readers because everyone can identify with the writer's predicament of having to make a choice, with two different options, as in the poem which path to take or the well-trodden path or as he decides. the least travelled. As a consequence of this choice, the writer states, his life was profoundly different from what it would have been if he had taken the other path. The other path, the more traveled and seemingly safer of the two, makes the reader seem braver in accepting what the unknown has to offer, thus making their own way in the world. Reading further the roads are almost the same, both beautiful and equally passable. The writer tries to explain why things happened the way they did and that is a significant moment in his life. One could choose the road that leads them to ... middle of paper ... and the rest of the day, it was here, as he struggled to make things work, that he wrote many of his most famous poems. Although there are many choices to choose from, only one decision can be made and as always there will be many different outcomes, perhaps not at first, but each new choice has been divergent from all the previous ones. Many factors will play a role in the decisions you make and over time decisions will be questioned, but once that path has been taken and experienced, starting over isn't really starting over or going back, but continuing. There will always be the question: what would happen if the other path were taken, where would it lead? There are many influences that impact your choice of path, the inability to change your mind, the consequences that come with it, as well as external factors that all impact the decision.