Dear Robert Frost,

As I read your poem I was astonished to see the way you looked at life. I don't see any choice in life, all that exists is given by fate. I can't understand where you get those ideas of choosing a path. In my handbook I explain through practical examples that what you are saying isn't true. Starting with The "play writer" and the "actor" in a play (16). Through this metaphor I try to teach others that one must know his place in life. You on the other hand, are telling people exactly the opposite that we all can be fate by choosing with a free will that doesn't exist: at least not for that.

The only thing we can change about our current situation is what we feel and what to some extent how we react to the situation. As I will explain in the following quotation only some very limited things are to be in our control: "Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions in short, whatever is our own doing." (1) You say that people are free to choose their path but the path has been carved by others. Thus it truly isn't up to us which path we choose since it was never our own doing. When you mention the The Road Not Taken as a title to you poem it just says that there is a special road for you which might be true. It might look as if the choice was yours but that road no one else took probably was predestined to be your final choice. The only thing you can really change is how you look at the path you have chosen, making it look different for you but still not changing the undeniable truth that you weren't able to choose it.

It would be against by beliefs in what I have written to allow myself to believe in such a possibility. Although I respect your belief and of those that follow you I do warn you that you are outreaching yourself. Attempting change the unchangeable will only bring self-inflicted suffering to your life. This path you falsely believe to have chosen, if continued to be looked upon with such eyes, will harm you and those that believe in you.

Sincerely,

Epictetus