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Let's start off with a famous poem by Robert Frost.

The Road Not Taken

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.



If you haven't realized this, the poem is about decision taking. Although I have not read this poem in a long time, I'll try to remember my best (I didn't take a read of this when I obtained it). One decision is the common one, and the other one is not. You can compare to this bravery or running away, the latter being the common one. The narrator took the neglected route, and that has made all the difference, so it changed his life. It should be something along those lines.

Other analysises are welcome as well. Any disagreement should be taken with kind words.