Identity Is... Choices

Recently, I read a poem known as 'The Road Not Taken'. This poem basically talks about how a decision to do a certain action, or go a certain way, can change the way your life unfolds. Therefore, affecting the way your identity/personality forms based on those decisions. For example, say you decided to grab that cigarette from that teenager that one day in grade 5. Due to this choice, you may start to give into other forms of peer pressure (like bullying little Jimmy from down the street because Johnny told you too). Furthermore, that decision has now changed the way you think, the fact that you give into what these people tell you to do. If you hadn't of done that, you might be taking care of a nice family, have an amazing job as a university professor. In conclusion, your choices determine who you are, so be sure that you're making the right ones.

The Road Not Taken

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, 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 travelled by,

And that has made all the difference."