We are often told that time is a healer. With time, everything gets better.
But...
The truth is...
Time was never a healer. If anything, time is a teacher instead.
It doesn't heal our wounds to make us feel better. It just teaches us the way to bear that pain and live with it. In all honesty, there is no such pain that actually truly fades away.
Pain sticks with us but the difference is that pain sticks to us like our shadow.
How is it a shadow?
When we get close to something that brings happiness in our life again, for that particular time, pain leaves our side as the shadows leave us in darkness.
No matter how old this pain gets, it doesn't fade away. But then again, without this pain, we all be left with no reminders of our mistakes.
As the saying goes, 'Pain demands to be felt.'
