Answer: The choice of paths in the woods is compared with choices in life. The less traveled road is the less conventional or popular path. The speaker is saying that he didn't just conform to what everybody else was doing. He opted for a way of life that was a little different from most, and that was a crucial life-choice for him.
This is what the poem says; it may or may not be autobiographically truthful (poetry does not have to record the facts of the poet's life), but it is the statement of the poem.
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