It's terrific what time will do to heal things, as long as we're patient enough to wait for it.
Within a week of buying the pristine white laptop computer, I left it sitting on a magazine and it absorbed a bunch of measles-like black spots all around the Mac logo. I scrubbed the area with all manner of scouring pads and solutions to no effect. Today, a year later, those spots are gone.
Same goes for the bouts of itching skin that develop when athletes walk around locker rooms. With a bit of drying powder and the benefit of a week or so, things return to normal as if nothing ever happened.
If I'd shaved off the spots with a sander, or cut into the skin, there'd be a scar defacing what could have been. And when relationships are inflamed, what I don't say can be as or more important than what I do say. In time, whether with a good night's sleep or just by keeping a smile on the face, things that seem intolerable today can vanish painlessly into the distant past.
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