A thousand cuts ||Neem Candies

We never face the full consequences of our actions. Or even if we face them, we don’t face them in one go. We never get to see a big wound on the chest. Instead of that big wound, our security systems ensure that we have a hundred little cuts.

Had there been one single big wound on the chest, then we would have been forced to realize the extent of our suffering. But we don’t have that one big wound; we have arranged to turn that one big wound into several small ones, and even those several small ones don’t occur to us parallelly, they come to us in installments. And that gives us enough allowance to keep deceiving ourselves and keep telling ourselves that all is alright.

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