Literature
Making Friends
She touched the first skillet, and it burned her.
She touched another, and that, too, burned.
A third
A fourth
A fifth
Regardless how many skillets she touched, they always burned her.
So the logical assumption would be that all skillets would burn when touched.
But her family told her she had to touch skillets, that cooking and frying was something that every person had to do- should want to do.
So she touched another.
And it burned.
Finally, after years of trying, she placed her hand on a handle, and although initially it simmered, it didn’t burn. It reduced its heat to something comfortable, something she could deal with. A