We tell one another that time heals all wounds, because we want to believe that the pain we experience will go away, especially when we are right in the thick of it. But we are fooling ourselves if we think that our wounds will heal completely, as the saying suggests.
They won't. And life still goes on.
I once believed that I just needed time to heal the things that broke me, but decades later I've learned the truth. The pain lessens, thankfully.
I figure out a way to function and find joy and even forget, for periods of time, the pain or the trauma that cut me to my core. But the wound is always there and can sometimes feel as fresh as if it just happened.
Having regular reprieve from the wounds is a gift, but I also must remember and process them purposefully, sometimes. I think that psychotherapist Shadeen Francis got it right when she said, "Time doesn't heal wounds.