Grievances
Illustration★★★If a man is wounded he puts a bandage over the wound and keeps it out of sight till it heals. If he takes the bandage off and shows it to everyone he meets it will never — heal. And people do not like to have old sores shown to them. It is a disgusting spectacle. Not more so than to have persons uncover their old grievances and rehearse them to all they meet. Injuries ten, twenty years old are kept fresh and sore by this process, and people are dis- gusted by the recital of them.
The point
Constantly rehashing old grievances, like uncovering a healing wound, keeps the hurt alive instead of letting it heal.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Cautionary
To tell aloud
under a minute · 97 words