I heard an ignored elephant in the room does not grow smaller.

I find this to be true.

A person can walk around with fingers in their ears and eyes pressed shut.

But the elephant remains and cannot fit itself through the door.

People just sometimes prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist.

It’s easier than caring for it.

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On the contrary, the elephant grows in size.

It wanders around and eats all the unguarded food.

Driving its size up until the person is forced to deal with it.

It takes because that is its nature.

The person can manage it by feeding it by hand but not change it into a different animal.

The boundaries that have been set will remain.

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The best thing to do is to leave the elephant behind.

Fit through a door it cannot follow and start again.

You control yourself and not the elephant.

You will never be able to change the beast no matter how tame.

All you can do is put yourself outside the environment that the elephant lives in.

So go ahead and head through that door.