Some injury may not be noticeable, but over time, it builds up and by then, the impact is worse than if the injury was caught at the onset. Injury in the sense of sport and health in general.

This applies also to psychological health, interpersonal relationships, etc. We say someone "carries a baggage" alluding not to a physical baggage, but non-physical. This can also come from latent "injury". Someone hurt our feeling and we brush it off. But it may leave a "latent injury" inside.

Our way of coping with this "baggage" influence how we behave. Toward ourselves and toward others. And frequently with unfavourable implications.

Dear God,
please help me realise
how my past hurts influenced me;
please heal me and change me,
so I can let go of
the un-Christlike behaviours
that those hurts might have shaped me
in the past