Innocent little exercise

I was in a creativity class once and the teacher gave us an odd thought exercise.

Clearly, to me, it was supposed to get us out of our comfort zones and habitual ways of thinking.

I thought it was an interesting idea and nothing more.

But there was one student who got really angry about the exercise.

In fact they made such a song and dance about it that they ended up leaving the class.

On the surface it looked like rage but I suspect underneath it all, it was really fear.