The parable of the "W" Key

There are often things in my life that annoy me.  I consider them trivial and not weorth the time to resolve.  These little "things' start to consume me.  It can take me out of a good mood in a heartbeat and put me in a bad mood for an indefinite longer sustained peeeriod of time.  WEehy do I ignore these things? WEhy don't I take action on them and fix them wehile they are still manageable?  I'm not sure, but I do knowee I need to weeork on it. 

Case and point, my "W" key is messed up.  Every time I press a W key it is immediately followeeed by one or many E's.  Wehy have I "worked around" this the past weeeek? (by weorkaround, I mean deleting all of the superfluous e's as they pop up)  I can't fix it myself, I have to ask for help!  Crap, I hate asking for help.  If I don't ask for help, the problem is going to get bigger and bigger inside my head.  I'm tired of deleting all these e's!  My weords get jumbled and I can't communicate properly.  Finally, I have to put in more work to get the same result.  It just doesn't make sense. 

The moral of this little story is, value yourself and take the time action necessary to keep yourself running at your maxiumum level. 

nip it in the bud

Meaning: If you nip something in the bud, you stop a problem from becoming serious by dealing with it as soon as you notice it.

For example:

• Alan has a serious weight problem. Now he wishes he'd nipped it in the bud by eating less and exercising more when he was first starting to put on weight.
  
  
• I was starting to drink too much alcohol, so I nipped it in the bud and stopped drinking altogether before it became a serious problem.
  
  

Origin: This is a metaphorical idiom based on the fact that if you want to stop a plant from growing bigger, you can cut off the new leaf buds or flower buds, or "nip the buds".