A bandaid is always there for you. A means of protection against the harmful environment we live in. A bandaid covers up the scars and bruises of those once hurt. They hug tightly around the sorrow and pain we once felt during the moment of injury. A bandaid can last a day, hour, or minute. A fresh bandaid sticks to the skin with an adhesive that has the potential strength to last the full day. Sometimes the bandaid barely sticks, falling off whenever it gets the chance. You may fall and reopen the wound, but there is no bandaid to be found, leaving it bare for bacteria and infections to sneak in. .You keep pressing the bandaid back onto your skin,
rubbing the adhesive hoping it will stick, just for it to fall off again. You repeat this process until you peel it away from the wound leaving it bare. As it heals you are left with the idea that nothing can protect the wound. Then there’s the bandaids you can’t get rid of. They last days with no sign of wear. You pick at it, pour water on it, you do everything to get it off. You pick and pick but the bandage won’t budge. That’s until you finally rip it away from your skin revealing the wound from before, but with more skin lost from the adhesive. You are left with more pain than you had before. Nonetheless, there’s the one bandaid, that’s perfect. The perfect size for your wound. The bandaid hugs the wound covering every inch without feeling tight or loose. It lasts as long as you need it, always being opened to being refreshed to make sure your wound heals perfectly. And when you need to let it go, there is no fight, no infected wound from lack of care, but the perfect scar you will always remember.