This article is part of Sister Michelle Watson's deep dive into the concept of "deny yourself" (Mt. 16:24, Mk. 8:34, Lu. 9:23, 3 Ne. 12:30). Today's sub-theme is "me first."
As a kid, I loved my copy of "A Light in the Attic," a collection of hilarious poems by the wonderful Shel Silverstein. One of them is called "Ladies First," in which a bossy little girl named Pamela Purse pushes her way to the front of the ice cream line, shoves herself onto the school bus before the other kids, and guzzles every last drop of canteen water on a jungle safari, leaving none for her friends.
On that same jungle safari, Ms. Purse meets Fry-'Em-Up Dan, a cannibal who isn't sure which of the school children he should eat first until Pamela insists that she be — you guessed it — first.