An Open Wound
If you give a band-aid to a child whose hands are bleeding, that child will play with that band-aid instead of covering the wound. Time passes, the child forgets that his hand is bleeding. The blood on his hand dries up, the wound is closed. But an inevitable scar remains. When the child grows up, he asks himself why he did not take care of this wound in time. I was a child, he says later. It means that we didn't care much about the wounds we received as a child, but when we grow up, the scars left behind are more painful than an open wound.
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