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The Spirit of Ants
The way a human lives his life may be divided into two natures: having a superfluity of things to do, and having a scarcity of those. The former makes the man regrettably give up some activities before he could perform the others adequately; the latter deprives gradually the meaning of life, just as boredom dispels it.
The way ants live their lives is rather different. The queen ant does one single thing: to reproduce, and with no absence of mind. The worker ants do miscellaneous and toilsome things but only for one purpose: to serve the very queen. Their life does not allow too much for them to be entangled, thus they live as if they had “faith,” although we know it’s only biological instinct.
We humans are intellectual animals. However, we too often fail to judge what are the truly critical things to do, and lose the insight into “meaning” contrarily because we are too intelligent or wise. For us greed is that both the fish and the bear’s paw have to be possessed, or else neither of them is our qualified preference. The lesson the ants teach us is that in the brevity of life, everyone should discern and cherish the most valuable objects, be they treasures or goals.
