Sunday, November 29, 2009

Unrooted
tr.v. un·root·ed, un·root·ing, un·roots

It wouldn't be considered unusual to envision a premature plant being removed from its planter upon hearing this word. Horticulture is, after all, what the term is referring to. Although like many words it has varying connotations when used in different contexts. Consider the word for the second time. You may imagine person or object which is quite comfortable where it is being removed and placed in the unfamiliar, somewhere where it could either thrive or struggle. The results yielded are, for the most part, unpredictable (especially when applying to humans). But everything which is unfamiliar eventually becomes familiar with time, and with so much unfamiliarity constantly at the ends of our fingertips why wouldn't we stay unrooted in some way? To be completely rooted is to be completely contentt and really what's so appealing about that?

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