Frost's Letter

Mr. Frost,

If I may, let me tell you that you are mistaken. You say that what the future might be, you can see it and take the best decision because id up to you. Well, sorry to put it down for you, but it is not up to you. You have analyzed two ways to go, your destiny and have not accepted what is to come naturally. I think that you have to be ready for anything, yet not decide it. You have to say to yourself when something goes not according to planned, “I want to take a bath and to keep my choices in accord with nature.” (Section 4) When two option where proposed to you in your aging time, you “I took the one less traveled by,” (Robert Frost, the Road Not Taken, 19.) interfering with what is not up to you! How could you? If you had just taken the decision that naturally was going to be, then you would not be miserable and not have to “be telling this with a sigh,” (The Road Not Taken, 17.) But with a smile and felt “freedom and happiness,” (Section 1) of not averring a road that might not be the appropriate for you Mr. Frost.

I say you have to learn that you are not the one that takes the decision of your life, “Remember that you are an actor in a play, which is as the playwright wants it to be: short if he wants it short, long if he wants it long.” (Section 17)Since you are not the playwright then why are you choosing which way to go, analyzing both roads, “and looked down one as far as I could” (4). If I were to teach you what is it that you are supposed to do to not be miserable and upset, I would have taken the road more traveled. The road that naturally appeals to be traveled and therefore is more traveled. I assure you Mr. Frost that if you listen to my advices, your poems would be different along with your life. “And that has made all the difference” (20)

Sincerely,

Epictetus