When your life is like rut...

Face it, we never get to be happy every moment from birth to death. Those who claim that they do is simply lying... period. Sometimes we feel on top of the world, but sometimes we feel like beneath the ocean. At times we feel like a piece of useless rut only to be stepped upon. But is a rut really that useless?

When the weather is cold, a rut provides warmth to someone's feet. When the floor is wet, a rut provides the needed grip so oldies don't slip and fall. And outside my door, the rut makes sure the tiles are clean at home so my wife don't have to mop and re-mop each time we are home. Especially so now that she is close to delivering our 3rd child, she needs a break from all these chores. So... a rut isn't that useless afterall, or is it?

As the saying goes... there is a woman behind every successful man. Similarly... underneath every hero there is a rut like you and me. So when you think that you are like a rut at some point in your life, that is because you are doing something in service of others. To those others whom you serve, you are needed... even if you really feel like a rut.