“Once this healthy practice has become grooved, it will be so interesting and profitable that the time it takes won’t be missed.” (Page 89, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
Rut: A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground.
Groove: A long, narrow channel or depression.
Depression: An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
Whether I am in a rut or a groove or a depression depends on the perception. Things having stayed the same for a long time does mean I’m in a rut. Lots of things stay the same and are perfectly lovely that way. Sometimes I need to get out of a rut. Sometimes I need to recognise I’m not in a rut, I’m not in a depression, I’m in a groove.
The topography, in any case, is not out there, it’s in my own mind.