LLTM: "The Road Not Taken"

As a girl, I used to quote Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", although I wasn't really sure of it's meaning.  At the age of twelve, I figured I had everything about this poem understood- the narrator took a path that was less worn, and because of that, he is who he is.

Now, having read it as a freshman in college, I realize that he didn't just take the other road.  He contemplated if that was really what he wanted to do, or if he wanted to take the first path.  A parallel that could easily be drawn between this poem and life is that he was considering whether or not to follow the crowd and conform, or to be his own person by taking his own path.  And I think it's inspirational that he took the other path, because it helps people realize that sometimes, it's okay to go away from the crowd and decide to do what you as an individual want to do, and not what the masses think you should do.

One of the questions the book asks is if the narrator sighs in regret, resignation, or fatigue?  I think it isn't really any of those, but instead a sigh of remembrance.  He's looking back at his past, and thinking about all his choices that have effected him in one way or another.  And even though I'm only a freshman in college, I have many of those sighs.  Like the song from Wicked says, "Who can say if I've been changed for the better, but because I knew you, I have been changed for good."  Turn it into the context of this poem, and he's saying who knows if he's better off because he took the path less traveled, but he knows he's become who he is because of it.