The Road Not Taken

How we talk about our choices

A Woodland Road with Travelers by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1607 (public domain - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

“We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we…