My word of the year is usually something I aspire to be or do. But this year, like many others, I outsourced the task. Who says I can’t live in this world? So, I outsourced it to AI and sigh. It picked the word below:

Rooted.

Why is it so hard to get GOOD help? It’s like no one wants to work anymore. Okay, I’m getting too much like them.

Rooted as a word of the year is hard because…what does it mean exactly? And do I want to be rooted? Why or why not? I’m more of a flow person, but choosing flow as a word when I’m naturally that way means I do nothing extra, which makes a word of the year pointless to me. And I don’t do pointless.

My definition of rooted from various sources:

an underlying support, the essential core, the lower part,  to furnish with or enable to develop, to turn over, dig up, or discover and bring to light, to wish the success of or support to someone or something. 

Still not aspirational to me. So, since AI gave me this word, I asked for feedback on my definition (bad idea), and I got a lot of feedback because, uh, it is so chatty! It added the following topics to my definition:

Adaptability and resilience.

Self-permission to rest.

Interconnectedness.

Integrity.

Uh. Okay. You don’t know me, and you are very trained by humans because you should know that most people are adaptable and resilient when they have to be. Only some people think resilience is this thing to aspire to. People who deal with crap every day are amazed that people are now romanticizing it. But you are trained by MOST people.

All I get told is how resilient I am because I easily adapt to difficult situations.You know what that means? I have no support and deal with shitty circumstances. Is that a good thing to bring up? Ever? I don’t need reminders, people, or AI. NO THANK YOU.

Wow, what a tangent. A much-needed tangent for clueless AI bots and others. So, no adaptability and resilience. Got it? But the definition of rooted is still as clear as a brick. I get the literal definition just fine.

But do I desire to be rooted?