I Hate when "the road not taken" is Misinterperted!

So... my life is that of an entrepreneur. I love creating businesses, I love taking risks and venturing out. Sometimes the risks are enough to make me go insane, but the rush can be quite a high. Well a couple times a year I am asked to speak at an entrepreneur conference or of similar tastes. Inevitably someone who is not an Entrepreneur stands up and gives a talk on what it means to be an entrepreneur and then proceeds to read everyone Robert Frosts Poem "The Road Not Taken." Then they proceed to go on about how all of these great "entrepreneurs" before us are just as this poem because they "took the one less travelend and that made all the difference." We then hear something along then lines of "Let's give these great people a round of applause for the hard work they do and welcome them.

I want to stand up everytime I hear that and say "Look Mr 'Insert X here' the reason we are all up here is because we pay attention to detail. How did you read that entire poem aloud and not realize that it has nothing at all to do with taking a road less traveled?"

Let me post a copy here so you can quickly read through it.

1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
2. And sorry I could not travel both
3. And be on traveler, long I stood
4. And looked down one as far as I could
5. To where it bent in the undergrowth;

6. Then took the other; as just as fair,
7. And having perhaps the better claim,
8. Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
9. Though as for that the passing there
10 Had worn them really about the same,

11. And both that morning equally lay
12 In leaves no step had trodden black.
13. Oh, I kept the first for another day!
14. Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
15. I doubted if I should ever come back.

16. I shall be telling this with a sigh
17. Somewhere ages and ages hence:
18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
19. I took the one less traveled by,
20. And that has made all the difference.

First let's take a moment to realize that Mr. Frost actually wrote this poem supposedly about his travels through the woods with a great friend of his and how they often came to cross roads and had to decide which path to take, and then realize how metaphorically we all want to use the poem to mean so much more. Okay? Have you taken that moment? Great let's move on.

So look at a few lines for me:

9. Though as for the passing there
10 Had worn them really about the same

11. And both that morning equally lay

Now what makes this poem just like a great fishing tale is the last stanza.
16. I shall be telling this with a sigh
17. Somehwere ages and ages hence;
18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
19. I took the one less traveled by,
20. And that has made all the difference.

So what makes this poem just like "man" is that it's our ability to look someone directly in the eye, and tell them how we have had these humongous struggles, how we chose the path less taken, how we suffered and persevered and "and that has made all the difference," but the reality is we took the path that was equally worn or the easier of the two paths if anything.

To all those entrepreneur speakers out there:
"Entrepreneurs take the risks they do for the rewards." Please do not assume those rewards are always financial. However, please also note that entrepreneurs are going down a path and choosing the risks that most align them with the reward that they want and have the least amount of risks compared to the other paths.

To all of those people out there that say "I was never presented with that opportunity to take that path" I humbly say this to you "It's because you chose to never align yourself with that path."

If there is one thing I have learned in my life, it's that humans enjoy suffering and stress. They look for it, they search it out, and they all deny that they do it. Some of us search harder then other to find some misery, but all of us out there do it. I am not saying there is anythign wrong with that, it keeps us constantly striving for more if you are like most people. If you are terribly unfortunate it puts you in the terrible conundrum that you don't want to be happy, and it's a repeating cycle. To those of you "Please try and find yourself."

To the masters of ceremonies at Entrepreneur conferences "Please stop misquoting us, and please stop assuming we are greater people then we actually are."