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it! I had a good laugh and suddenly a huge sense of relief. (Not just my bladder!)
Was it such a big deal? I rode a few hours in the wrong direction, orchestrating my overloaded camel through a rutted, muddied dirt road. Sure, but actually, it was a really awesome scenic side trip. Accepting I wasn’t going to make Chicago unless I rode straight till mid- night, I decided to finally listen to my phone’s directions and go the other way to ride the entire route that I had originally planned. East River Road to Teddy Roosevelt National Park. I didn’t care how long it took me, I was already adding an extra hotel night to my ride home.
I was finally out of the rut!
Sure, I ended up riding about 7 hours in the gravel and dirt without getting any closer to Chicago or home, dropping the bike and getting myself a bit overheated, but I’m so grateful I did not skip one of the most scenic backroads I have ever travelled.
Getting ourselves out of rut that seems to get deeper and deeper isn’t easy. Sometimes in life, we get so fixated on the outcome, we don’t realize we are drowning or burying ourselves deeper and deeper, riding in a rut that seems impossible to get out of.
A rut can be a routine or course of action that we follow blindly without listening to the voice of reason
or accepting the obvious signs
that we have
screwed up!
Just like
that pothole
that we can
steer around,
we can get out
of a rut and recalculate our life’s road to take us we want to go. Some- times we just need to pay attention to the advice from
the second voice
in our head to
get there!
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