The pan
I vigorously wash the dirty pan with all my talent and ambition. I see my pan still disgusting after hours of scrubbing and giving my best. That’s when I notice another person’s pan is crustier than mine and then over to my left is someone who’s pan sparkles like a golden ray of sun. The brush says no one has an advantage over one another because we all started at the same time and I take it to heart. But, what I’m most intimidated by is the millions of people’s pans that are just like mine. These millions of kids have put in the same amount of work and tone into scrubbing their pan as me. I am no different then those millions of kids. How will I ever show how wonderfully I washed my pan if their are a ton of kids who washed the exact same pan, in the exact same time, with the exact same brush? Who will notice me then? I envy the other kid who’s pan glistens and wonder if the person with the dirtier pan than me feels the same towards me. Then again, I’m a carbon copy of millions of kids. My pan is now clean, shimmering with glee but I don’t feel pride but, a knawing hollow. No one will care about the girl who washed her pan in the same time as a bunch of other kids. No, not even if it shines just like the pan of the first person to finish. They will always pay attention to that person who got their pan to gleam before all the others. Even though that person got to soak their pan the night before, they still get recognition. Meanwhile the rest of us had to coax the hardens food off when they wiped it away without dismay. And what about the boy who’s pan was dirtier than the majority? His pan had food baked on and left to dry for weeks. The brushes don’t admit to these inevitable advantages and disadvantages so no one sees what’s going on. Therefore, that boy will always have a worse pan to clean, kids like me will have the average pan to clean, and the favored kid will always have a softend pan to clean. So we already know who will be third, second, and first when the next dirty pans end up in the lap of our children.