Well... we talked about this once before, right? When you have something real painful it's like a big raw open cut. But instead of cleaning it you ignore it and hope it goes away and instead it gets all infected and hurts more and more and by the time you DO manage to try to fix it then you gotta like, clean it, but then also take medicine and pay even more attention to it and it takes a lot longer to heal...

So if you just try to fix it as soon as you can, it won't hurt any more than it did when the bad thing first happened, at least. And it can heal better and faster.

[ quiet for a moment ]

Yeah, it makes me tired. But I get more tired when I gotta hold in all my feelings and pretend it don't hurt, like I been lately. And sometimes I don't wanna talk about stuff either, not yet, cuz I gotta think about it more... and that's tiring too, but... less than never doing anything at all.