Dealing is like walking around with a splinter in your foot. You know it is there, you feel it, but instead of doing the steps to heal it (aka get in there with some tweezers), you just modify the way you walk. The idea of healing it seems more difficult than going the route of moving forward and ignoring it. Then, as it becomes more irritated and inflamed, your limp becomes greater. This is a slippery slope of ignoring that always creates a greater problem. This is both meant in a sense of physical pain, dysfunction, or imbalance and the non-physical.... and the metaphorical representation to life itself...