But, this is an old story, a story that’s obviously been told again and again, so much so that “head in the sand” is now an idiom, a cliché. Whenever we want to point out that someone trying to ignore problems rather than confronting them straight up and head on, we say he or she is burying their head in the sand.
As we all know, ignoring problems instead of facing them and nipping them in the bud may lead to bigger issues later on and situations really getting out of hand. So it is, generally speaking, not a good idea to do so.
Still people do bury their heads in the sand when the going gets tough, when the task facing them becomes too daunting. Or perhaps some people are just born timid. Or perhaps they believe it works.
Or perhaps for some other good reason.
Whatever. People obviously bury their head in the sand a lot, for better or worse, drawing from the many examples easily found in the Internet. Here are but a few recent ones:
1. In an emotional interview for a new documentary, Prince Harry revealed the effect his mother’s untimely death in 1997 had on his life. The royal opened up in ITV’s latest documentary, Prince Harry In Africa, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Aids charity he set up in her memory, Sentebale.
“I never really dealt with what had happened,” the 32-year-old royal said. “It was a lot of buried emotion. For a huge part of my life I didn’t really want to think about it.”
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