Some roads are much different, cluttered, untamed, deserted, abandoned, dark, intimidating.
It's usually so much easier to take the path which walks straight into things that you can expect things from, but no, you hardly ever take that path down because you're curious and so ever confident in the beginning, you take that godforsakened road thinking you'll make it out alive, thinking you'll conquer it regardless of its hazard.
Some people chose the right path and it leads them right out into an oasis of paradise, they got everything right but most people undermined this and takes the wrong one, and with each wrong turn, it brings them so much deeper into the darker forest, soon just to lose all the positivity they once had.
At some point in the journey, some will sit down with knees to their chest, wondering whatever made them decide on this. Sometimes they'll wonder if they'll ever get out like how they see so many other does, yet keep convincing that their luck wouldn't be that rotten to keep heading the wrong way.