Letting go of healing

When do you know to take off a band-aid?

Some take it off to early, some at the right time and some later. They take it off, because they recognize that it is a band-aid and it has served its purpose.

I feel I am scared to take mine off. I do not know if it is too early, right time, or late. But don’t you know this only after taking it off?

It feels like I have forgotten that the band-aid is an aid, it has a purpose. It is not part of me. It feels like this because I have spent so long looking for how to live correctly, that I now wonder am I putting that information into good use? Learn from the past, do not stay in it right?