What happens when you `bury' or `hide' your head in the
sand? The most obvious thing is that you won't be able to
see anything! If you can't see anything, you will not know
what is happening around you. When a person buries his
head in the sand, he tries to run away from his problems. He
refuses to even acknowledge that he has any. Instead of
tackling the problem, he deliberately ignores it. By turning a
blind eye to it, he hopes that somehow the danger or trouble
will go away on its own! In other words, he is wishing it
away. He doesn't want to deal with it.
You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand. We
need a plan of action.
When an ostrich is in danger and doesn't want to be
detected, it stays low and stretches out its long neck along
the ground. People thought the bird was trying to bury its
head in the sand - it wasn't!