“Life is never about having it only once, it’s about what you choose to do with it, who you choose to spend it with and making history when you leave.” Life is never only about having it the easy way out, if we say to struggle and feel that life is hard, how would life be better if it was too easy?
Life is nothing but an open book, filled with the ideas you paste onto pages each day of your life. We tend to take many things for granted and forget to appreciate the little things in which we go through each moment of our days. It is full of experiences and un answered questions we strive to accomplish to answer.
In the poems of, “The road not taken” by Robert Frost and “If”, by Rudyard Kipling, they have many different lessons and meanings towards them in their own words and also talk about how the many choices we choose to make, influence us on our decisions. In the poem “If”, a father is expressing and teaching his son to be patient, trust himself with his opportunities that could make him there person he is and in the future. “The road not taken”, is a poem that had meant a lot of things. The writer had been describing a man who had the choice of taking a path between two roads. In this poem, it had many lessons and had been describing that he himself had the choice to choose a path that everyone seemed to take as the common one but realizing that he would want to take the risk of taking an un common path to be unique and to be the one to say he experienced what many others hadn’t chose to do.
We make choices with everything we do whether it is something small or big, the choices we make influence us and lead us onto more opportunities. In “The road not taken”, he had the choice of taking a path between two, “Then took the other, as just as fair. And having perhaps the better claim,” which made him come to the mindset that he wanted to be unique for his own sake. This quote was demonstrating that it would have been a common road if people would take it and would be just as fair to take it like the other path. While choosing to take this path, he hadn’t realized that he would have a positive outcome on his life but yet disappointed that he couldn’t have the opportunity to take both.
As for the poem of “If”, the father was mentoring and guiding his son how to make the right decisions in life. He had explained that there would be times that life wouldn’t go the way we want and the plan we had strived for, “And so hold on when there is nothing in you” was showing that even when we have nothing much left to help us look forward to and to improve to see better opportunities, we have to keep in mind something that will keep our positivity intact. This poem also shows that when you’ve worked hard for accomplishments and gave sacrifices towards your life, “Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,” some may turn out to be worth the risk and some turn out to make you realize that it wasn’t meant to turn out the way we wanted.
Although comparing with these two poems, they both give a lesson and create thoughts to think about for a person. They show that life consists of risks, un answered questions, sacrifices and including different lessons. We have our way to choose how we want to see our perspectives on life; we have the choice to see how we choose to live our lives whether we see it clearly or as a foggy mist. In fact, mistakes are meant to happen and we tend to not see that mistakes are what make us realize our improvements and how we learn from our mistakes. We have opinions to be heard, we have opinions to be said and opinions could influence us on how we choose our decisions and whether we choose to take the opportunities to listen to other’s opinions, it could have a strong impact on our lives.
By seeing both poems having somewhat of the same meaning but looked at differently, both poems give off great messages to go by. Uniquely, both poems represent life in different perspectives and depending how you look at life, we tend to make the little things distractions instead of appreciating what we are given. We look for the prize without playing to win for it and we see things more as problems instead of finding the ways to solve them. Personally, I tend to look at life as a game but in reality we are the game and we choose where we want to go and how we want to play it.