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The Rock in Your Shoe
When you first notice it, you tell yourself it’s manageable.
You scrunch and squirm your feet, attempting to shift the stone to a more tolerable position. But with so little room to maneuver you only manage to embed it in a new, equally irritating location.
You continue walking, annoyed at the thought of halting progress in order to deal with such a tiny annoyance.
“Maybe if I keep walking long enough, I’ll wear the stone into nothing,” you muse to yourself hopefully.
Sooner or later, however, you’re forced to confront the fact that you can continue no further without addressing the issue.
If you’re lucky, you’ll have paused to remove the stone before the skin has been worn raw or broken.
If you’ve waited to long… Well, you’re in for a difficult, painful journey ahead.
Eventually, even the smallest grain of sand will cause a blister that hobbles and eventually renders us no longer able to move forward at all.
It’s always frustrating and inconvenient in the moment to pause, take off our shoes and remove the irritant.
Even more so when we’re walking along a beach and sure to pick up a new stone almost immediately upon taking our feet again.
But if we don’t slow down and address the friction as it appears, we won’t make it to our destination at all, no matter the pace we’ve kept up to that point.
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