Are you a Scab Picker??

Remember when you would fall when you were little and get a big nasty wound on your knee? Remember the process it took to heal and what we did when we thought that the coast was clear? Remember having a fresh scab on your knee and having the greatest urge to pick at it just to see what it looked like underneath? Remember once you pick the scab seeing the fresh white skin underneath, because little did you know it hadn’t healed properly? Remember waiting all over for it to scab up again only to pick the scab prematurely? Now look down at your knee and count how many scars you have all because of your sense of urgency to pick at your scab!!! We all did this when we were little and learned the hard way, I’m sure that if we could go back and rethink about the scabs we picked so the ugly scars we have wouldn’t be there we might have did things a little differently.
Now look at our lives now, how many of us pick at our scabs now (not literally) ? How many of us pick at other’s scabs just to see what we can uncover before it’s actually time to in uncover it? I believe this happens in relationships too often. Some of us tend to scab pick like it’s the greatest hobby in the world, others do it unconsciously and never know what they are actually doing it until months later they see the ugly scar that they have left behind. Wounds are be treated with care, putting a band aid on a wound that needs fresh air to heal can only prolong the healing process. Nurturing it and constantly looking after it makes that wound heal faster and better. Even when it is starts to scab up its better to continue nurturing the scab as it was a wound then trying to pick at it to see if its completely healed yet. Its always better to wait for the scab to fall of itself before ever picking at it. Let me guess how many of us listen to that???