Just a Quick Thought // Band-Aids

The new band-aid commercial is pretty cute. It's all about protecting the ones you love by covering them and protecting them. At the end they say something alone the lines of "it's our human instinct to cover."

To a point I think that's true. We naturally want to cover our pain and our wounds so they can get better. However, I think that's also an irony. Sometimes we cover up our pain and our emotions so that our loved ones don't see it. 

Of course band-aid is talking about physical wounds. Those are the ones we cover up. But I don't think we can talk about covering wounds as humans and not address the emotional wounds that can be left behind. These emotional wounds are sometimes even more harmful than the physical. They say "time heals all wounds," but I think they're only talking about physical wounds.

I don't think the band-aid commercial is wrong. I only think sometimes covering ourselves can get us into more trouble than the healing we want.

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