road not taken
Route you skipped
The road not taken is a choice declined—the path you didn't pursue, the life you didn't live.
From Robert Frost's poem of the same name, often misread as celebrating unconventional choices when Frost actually suggests the roads were essentially equal.
People invoke it when reflecting on pivotal decisions: I sometimes wonder about the road not taken.
- pathRoute for traveling
- divergeSeparate into directions
- yellow woodTimber tree, pale grain
- frostThin ice coating
- choiceAct of selecting
life choices · woods · traveler · yellow · leaves · crossroads · journey · regret · decision · poem · Robert Frost · fork · wanderer · autumn · destiny · untrodden · grass · morning
- Famous Poetrynevermore, to be or not to be, jabberwocky, daffodils, Kubla Khan
- Literary Phrasesto be or not to be, carpe diem, et tu Brute, call me Ishmael, once upon a time
- thoughtsthought, idea, thoughts, ideas, thinking
- regretswhat if, hindsight, second thoughts, wrong choice, squandered
- Parallel Livesalternate history, multiverse, counterpart, alternate self, divergence
road not takenno regrets
Complete peace with decisions
the die is cast · bridge burned · point of no return · fait accompli · what is
road not takenbeaten path
Much-traveled route
safe choice · mainstream · status quo · path of least resistance · following the crowd
road, roads, roadway, roadways, roadside, roadsides, take, takes, taken