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Bam!

At the age of five months, twenty-six days, three hours, and eighteen minutes, she encountered her very first challenge — an invisible one, too. It limited her unskillful crawling. She could touch the barrier, fight it, and even lick it, but she couldn’t see it. The collision of her relatively giant forehead with the invisible enemy was painful and hopeless. The enemy was yet too strong. She left it alone and crawled in the opposite direction.

She often encountered the barrier over the next few years. With time, she grew comfortable with it. She leaned on it to learn to walk. It was then that she realized the barrier was infinite — she walked and walked and couldn’t find its end.

When she learned to eat with a spoon, she understood the barrier was not infinite but circular.

At three, she stopped coming in contact with the barrier, only walking within it.

At six, she forgot the barrier ever existed.