Hence, you see, if someone’s life is described as stuck in the rut, it means they’re doing the same things over and over again, as though they’re travelling down the same road all the time. In other words, their life is humdrum, routine and predictable.
And not very exciting.
Of course, and you can also say that their thinking is rutted, i.e. they keep having the same thoughts over and over again. In other words, they’re bereft of fresh ideas.
On the opposite spectrum, we sometimes refer to people with original ideas as unrutted, meaning they’re unfettered, radical and unconventional.
The unrutted person, for example, will travel a different road for example in order to avoid the rut, i.e. the same old same old. The unrutted new thinking, for example, of Mihail Gorbachev gave Soviet Russia perestroika, for better or worse.
This is an apt topic for today, I think, with Christmas coming up and another new year just around the corner. I think it would be timely and prudent to ask you: Have you had any fresh ideas for the new year?
Don’t fret. I’m just asking. Everything’s smooth and easy. Whether you have stimulatingly new ideas or not, I’m going to give you the same good wish….
As a matter of fact, I wish you all do.
Here, to break from our own routine of media examples, I’m going to share with you a poem. Here it is, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost:
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