So while I was waiting for my ride yesterday I got to watching some ants (what can I say.. they fascinated me). Someone had dropped a cracker or chip on the ground and the ants were doing their best to take it back to their place. One ant was busy dragging this piece away that was twice the size of it's body.. it could barely move it, but it kept on trying. Occasionally another ant would come up to it and start tugging right along with it but eventually it would leave and this ant would again be by itself pulling it's treasure by it's lonesome. I watched for ten minutes and it amazed me that this ant could have given up.. it could have went off to try to find something smaller and easier to pull, but it never did. It stuck with it.
People always tell me how hard things are in life.. and how they should give up. Hell, I'm guilty of that myself. But here's the thing.. if you give up just because the going is tough than you may miss out on the benefit of having the whole chunk of cracker as opposed to just a tiny bit. Funny how watching insects that people would normally step on without any consideration could make me have a somewhat deep thought.
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