Mind reading

I used to wonder why life seemed so simple to some people while it often felt quite complicated to me.

A teacher would hold up a picture and issue directions. I would wonder which of three ways I was supposed to follow them, while many others appeared to know right off the bat.

In school, thinking outside the box was only appreciated by certain teachers. The others preferred that you learned to read their minds. Fortunately those minds got easier to read as I grew older.