SENTINEL WATCH October 23, 2006 Issue

MAKING CHOICES

Frederick R. Andresen

ROBERT FROST'S FAMOUS POEM "The Road Not Taken" has been a companion throughout my business and personal life. I know it has significance for many others, too. While scholarly interpretations vary, to me the poem is about choice and carrying on. The essence of that poetic message complements the basic life lessons I've learned in studying Christian Science.

Virtually every moment in our lives, we are at some fork in the road, having to make a choice—whom to trust, where to look for a job, which cereal to try, where to go to college, where to live. Sometimes we give the choices lots of thought. We calculate and lean far over, squinting our eyes to see what's down one road or the other. Or, as Frost says, "... long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth." Business-school professors even try to reduce decision-making to a formula, and have written libraries on the subject. We live in a scientific age, and everything should be known—right? Well, some scientists today are telling us now that's not always so.

Other times, we choose without thinking at all. The choice may have been intuitive or forced.

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