Tales Of The Long Spoon: Selfishness Vs Sharing!

nairadaddy (65)in #steem • 7 years ago

Hello Steemians,

If you are from this century I pretty much believe that you know what a spoon is. I'm referring to the noun not the verb anyway. Had to point that out since I'm sure that cavemen also did spoon.

Lemme tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a town where eating with the hand was a taboo. There lived a woman in that town who had 12 stubborn kids. She left 12 kids in the house everyday while she went to the farm. When leaving she prepared a pot of pottage yam. She gave each a silver spoon to eat with.

As the days rolled by, she noticed that the youngest ones were getting leaner and leaner. What does this mean ? She reasoned. It must be that my eldest kids are rushing this food without any consideration for the young ones. See how fat they have become while my babies are shrinking.

She thought hard about what to do. Meanwhile this continued a little longer for over 2years. Why couldn't 12 equal spoons work? Is it because they are eating from the same pot of pottage?

The resources (including yam & pots) were limited so she could not divide the pottage into 12 different pots and cooking them separately. It will eat up her whole time and she wouldn't be able to farm again. They will all die of hunger if she did that for 1 week.

This continued until she met a wise old man who was tilling a neighbouring farm. She complained bitterly about her situation. The old man took pity and decided to help her train her kids. On one condition...

Did I mention that she was a widow? So now she had to marry the wise old man. Her kids needed a father figure anyway because they were getting out of control. Kids fear Daddies!

When the old man came in, he soon started noticing the same issue. They always pretended to be good when he was around but when he went to farm with their mum, it was all the same issue. The fat got fatter and the lean got leaner.

Not until he had an idea. Why not replace these short silver spoons with long wooden spoons? To get the potential effects of these long wooden spoons you have to understand that they are really long. Longer than their arms even.

He spent all of his life savings just to pay the carpenter that constructed these spoons. Once the C-man was done with the ultimate constructions, his primum opus, he deployed the amour. It was time for war!

For a good whole week of deployment, the yam of pottage was left mostly uneaten on a daily basis. This was working but no one was eating. He still left them to the experiment.

It took another full week for him to notice some changes. The fat was getting thinner and the lean was getting fatter. The pot of yam was being devoured by the previously lean.

Along the line, everyone learnt their lessons and they all grew in equal proportions ever after. The woman, the old man and 12 kids all lived happily ever after.

Are you confused? Don't be! I know you must be wondering how the long spoons magically cured them of their selfishness. Well, if you are good in physics you need not think too long. Your imagination would have shown you the answer. For the rest of you, lemme try and explain.

You see, one thing with a spoon longer than your arm is that you can't really eat with it. The content of the spoon will always overshoot your mouth like @Surpassinggoogle. That reminds me, there's a @SurpassingFacebook account on Steemit. 😂😂

So like it is shown on the diagram above, that guy is trying really hard to use the frigging spoon to eat but because it's longer than his arm, he can't quite get it into his mouth on his own. Key word- on his own!

He needs people to feed him. So until they each started feeding themselves, they didn't grow. The lean small guys figured it out first because they were selfless. The fat guys had grown into some very selfish bastards so they couldn't think outside the box of their mouths.

Gladly I'm they learn the hard way.