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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:"Time heals all wounds" What exactly is happening here? Why do you feel less "hurt" as time passes?
gpt
It takes time to understand and process what happened, your hormones and emotional state have a chance to return to relative normalcy, and you adjust to your new existence as a slightly hurt person.

Imagine the string of an instrument being plucked, it strongly vibrates, and the disturbance dissipates over time.

Your current emotional state is sort of the sum of all the things that have happened to you, but the more recent things have a larger effect. So over time your wound is "healed."

Obviously, in terms of physical wounds, if it isn't permanent damage then the passage of time allows your body to repair itself. So because time allows us to adjust to emotional hurt, and to repair ourselves from physical hurt, it heals "all" wounds.