Twisted Fork

Have you ever seen a twisted fork with two of its tines bent forward 90 degrees, and the other two bent backward 270 degrees? I had nightmares where I was this fork. I was... this twisted useless fork. Yup, you heard it right.

Let me add some context and explain this. In life, I’d decided to do whatever I wanted, with zero discipline, and avoid all things boring. Hop careers, learn new things, do new things, and stop doing them whenever I wanted to... with the hope that it’d eventually make me a person with a unique skillset. I was hoping that this path would lead me to a rich life. But I had this nightmare!

I was afraid I would end up as a worthless twisted fork, truly unique. Was my fear even logical! Was it fair to compare two things so different? I wanted to find out. In an attempt to dissect this, I asked myself a question, why do I not want to be a twisted fork?

Not because it’s of little use. No! Little maybe, but it’ll eventually find a use. What’s the reason then? Why do I fear it? The reason I came up with, it’s too cheap. It’s too easy to come up with a twisted fork. Unique it may be, but if one needed such an apparatus, one could easily create it.

So they really are not the same thing then! There is a big difference.

The difference between a twisted fork and a unique skillset, is, one cannot create ppl with unique skillset, with such ease. I mean you can be the twisted fork with little use, but the world is a big place, and somewhere somebody will need a twisted fork, only this time he cannot twist any fork into the one he wants. He’ll have to find that person with that rare skillset, and the person has to be paid in a truck load of cash. Simply because, he is the twisted fork in a world where it takes two years to bend a tine of a normal fork. That’s his leverage. And sure, sure his use might be a million times less than a normal fork. But in a world with billions of population, and the all connecting internet, there will be plenty job for him. He is the only candidate.