IT IS EASIER TO GET INTO A RUT THAN TO GET OUT OF ONE
In fact, the longer you are in a rut, the harder it is to get out.
Sometimes it requires another person's help to get out of a rut.
It is possible that we can stay in a rut so long that we cannot get out of the rut, even with someone's help.
Someone has said that a rut is a grave with both ends knocked out of it.