FORKY’s insignificance

On a planet similar to ours, the gods roam lonely. All they did was eat and they had a wide choice of food.

In the beginning, KNIFY existed out of the need to cut, a very basic need. The Gods created him and everyday he would spend his time cutting food for the gods to eat. KNIFY had a full day scheduled for him to work, he used to wake up in the morning before any of the gods were awake and start cutting their breakfast, and while they had their breakfast, KNIFY would be preparing their shares for lunch, an after lunch snack followed, and by the time dinner had to be served KNIFY was exhausted from the long day and went to sleep, relaxing for another day to start with the same procedure.

The Gods used to take the food KNIFY already cut, grab with their bare hands and put it in their mouth. But one day, the Gods realized that after satisfying that need, they should move forward to satisfy another.

They created SPOONY.

SPOONY was in charge of picking up the food and delivering it to their giant hungry mouth. SPOONY was also an essential creation of the gods, and they were very happy to have come up with a way that entitles them to eat liquid forms of food when their hands weren’t the effective tools to eat such a thing. 

SPOONY satisfied their hunger for a while, but she was not yet enough.

As time passed, the Gods evolved and they couldn’t bear the fact that SPOONY and KNIFY served 2 different purposes but couldn’t keep their hands clean.

Since the Gods were greedy and nothing satisfied them, they decided to create someone new, someone that would reflect their refinement, someone that can spare them getting their hands dirty, someone that can deliver the food to their mouth even though they can do it without his help.

They wanted to satisfy a higher need, one related to their self actualization, one that can help their image.

…and FORKY was created.

FORKY, SPOONY and KNIFY started to serve different parts in the day of a god.

However, one day, as one God was eating an apple, his after lunch snack, FORKY was helping him carry it. The god found that part of the apple has gone bad and he wanted to cut it out but KNIFY was not in sight as he was fooling around with SPOONY, so the god thought that maybe FORKY can do that job.

FORKY, knowing his own insignificance, being easily replaceable, was very happy to be able to satisfy one of the basic needs of the gods, and he thought of himself as a great tool since his sharpness allowed him to pierce the food and sometimes cut them being a substitute for KNIFY. However, having the parallel lines that entitled FORKY to carry the food has made it quite impossible for FORKY to do SPOONY’s job. FORKY got sad, but thought that if he can’t be everything at least he is superior to KNIFY.

Thoughts like these made FORKY vulnerable. So he started to try to prove his importance and superiority, but whenever liquids and hard food were involved FORKY couldn’t do anything.

Today, FORKY, SPOONY and KNIFY still function around the clock. However, zillions of them are created. They serve as spare parts of the machine, that same machine the Gods created and called life while FORKIES still try everyday to do SPOONY and KNIFY’s job in the Gods identity charade system.