Which is which

I am no poet. But I don’t hate poetry at all. Though I shun the way poets obscure their message, I still like the way they weave the words to produce so beautiful a sound like only a poem can.

I’m just a tepid fan of poetry. That perhaps explains my short list of favorite poems. One such favorite of mine is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost—partly because it’s easy to read and decipher its meaning, but mainly because it resonates with me:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Like the speaker in the poem, I have now come at the crossroads. But the only difference being that road where I am now does not just have two divergent roads, but three.

Barely six months from now, I will be graduating from college. That means I have to choose which career I will pursue.

“But,” might you ask, “don’t you want to be a teacher because you’re course is BSED?”

I still hold fast to that. In fact, I have written a good number of essays before, extolling the nobility of being a teacher. Although I wanted to be a teacher, I realized lately, I enjoyed writing and I’m also thrilled at the prospect of going to law school.

I wanted to pursue all, but, like the speaker in the poem, I could not travel all and be one traveler. In life, as in economics, there has to be a tradeoff. I have to choose among them. Unlike the speaker in the poem, though, I haven’t chosen yet which road will I take.

Can somebody help me?