The Road Less Traveled vs. Following The Path

My whole life I have heard things like don’t take the easy way or take the path less traveled. As someone who wants to become a writer, and someone who is very opinionated I have thought about this for a long time.

There are two paths in life, we call them choices, or the right and wrong. Well first off to me there is right and not so right because you can always fix something that is wrong to make it right. I have always told my own children that anything worth anything is not easy.

If you could imagine standing at a fork in the road. Looking one way you see a path warn, maybe some trash along the way, dirt instead of grass where you should walk, and you see people along the path some are crying some are laughing. Now you look the other way. The grass is tall, you can see the grass sway in the wind. You do not see any trash or people that way. You do not hear the laughter or crying of anyone. you stop and think about it. If you go down the path that everyone has chosen you will be greeted along the way with other people who will give you advise, who will laugh with you, cry with you, who may stab you in the back or who will point you in a direction that will benefit them in some way. You will have a fairly easy path to walk cause so many have traveled this way, and maybe along the way you can clean up some of the trash along the sides of the path. Now if you chose to go the other way there will be work you will have to make your way through the overgrown grass and shrubs, and you will have to do it alone. There is no noise so you will be alone to battle your thoughts. Looking at it that way it seems like it would be a choice made on emotion alone. Do you feel like being with others or alone. What you do not understand is at the end of the path. If you acquire something taken the path that is traveled will you appreciate it enough? Maybe both paths lead to the same place but will you appreciate the beauty at the end of it if you have not worked for it,