Get your head out of the sand

In a study of over 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years no one reported an ostrich burried its head in the sand.

Right now in the greiving process I wish I could bury my head in the sand- or at the very least my toes on a hot beach somewhere. Its so easy to sit at home and dwell and the more I do it the easier it seems than reaching out to people.

But for my son I pull my head of of the sand and put my best foot forward, if ostriches really never bury their head in the sand then why do we as humans think they do.......

Expression "Bury your head in the sand" originates from Pliney the Elder a Roman writer who suggested ostriches hide their heads in bushes- ostriches do neither but they do lay down to look "conspicuous"

When faced with difficult callenges its easy to just want to lay down bury your head in the sand and
disapear its easy to forgo social events and things you would normally enjoy, and you do have an excuse, but sometimes in order for light to get through sand you have to stir it up a bit and with natural light comes Vitamin D and Endorphins which make you happy.

So tomorrow Im going out im going to smile and think Ostiches have the smallest brain in the world if they dont actually bury their heads in the sand then I must be smart enough to stay above the dirt surface

Meaning of "bury your head in the sand" refuse to confront or acknowledge a problem