When I was a child and got hurt, Mom would clean the wound,
put on antibiotic, and put a bandage on the wound.
When the time came, I never wanted to take the bandage
off. I knew it would hurt. So I would try to take it off slowly and
carefully. It would still hurt, a little,
but it would continue to hurt for as long as it took me to take off the bandage. I could prolong this process for a very long
time.
Dad would say, “Just rip it off. Get it over with.” I finally tried it. It hurt!
But it did not hurt for long. It
certainly did not hurt for as long as it did when I slowly tried to peel it
off. If there was some way to measure
the acuity and length of pain for both processes, there probably was less pain
with ripping it off.
In life, we will always be faced with painful situations,
painful decisions. We can take action by
“ripping off the bandage.” Or we can
delay making a decision, delay taking action.
Although the first may be more painful at the moment, the total amount
of pain will probably be less than delaying.
Do you have any “bandages” that you have been slowly trying
to remove? Do you have relationships
that need to be addressed, or maybe ended?
Do you have a job that you need to leave? Would it be better if you just “ripped off
the bandage,” face the pain, and move on?
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