Spoons

written August 16, 2005

Ok. So this whole blog thing, what's it about anyways? Well, from looking at other people's it's writing about random things. So, I asked my good ol' friend, Britain, what I should write about and she told me "spoons", so "spoons" it is. Except I'm not gonna write about the utensil spoons. Well, I guess I kinda am.

Life can kinda be related to silverwear. As we come into the world we are like spoons, clinging and forming to the ways of those who raise us. We follow and watch their every move and cling on to them. Like spoons form and fit to each other in the silverwear drawer, we become complacent in the ways of our parents. Until one day we decide to start pushing the lines.

Graudually, we move from a spoon to a spork. We are still, for the most part, following our parent's ways, but we are becoming curious about the other things in life. The things that we see and hear about. The things that those around us bring in our lives. We begin to go towards the ways of our friends, except for we have many different friends that we want to be "fitted" to so I will refer to the next stage as the "fork" stage of life.

We have many different "prongs" pertruding from our life. We are in contact with many different people, much like a fork in a silverwear drawer. (ok, so if it's neat, they are all in-line to, but for sake of illustration, let's pretend its a messy, chaotic fork pile). Then as we graduate from highschool and enter the voyage of work, building a family, going to college, etc. we become like a knife. We decide who we are going to be and who we aren't going to be and we create a sharp edge about ourselves for when people come against our beliefs. For the most part we are straight and focused. Yeah, our focus may change, but we always want to better ourselves. And sometimes it's a struggle to stay focused, but staying focused, or a "knife" will help us get through the tough things of life the easiest.

So, what are you? Are you a spoon, still controlled by your parents (or societies) every wish and command? Are you a spork? Still directed by your parents but curious about what's out there? Are you a fork? Ever holding onto your friends and those around you? Or, are you a knife? Someone who sharpens themself off of those around them. Someone who is dependant on no one but God for strength and movement? But who uses the situations and circumstances they go through as sharpening tools?