Some developments in my relationship with the ants...

To Little Ant, life seems so relatively aimless and purposeless. To herself, she says, look at me, I'm just crawling around, I'm not really going anywhere, I'm just stretching my legs and occasionally picking up a crumb or two. But I am happy, I have food enough to eat and I know I'm not the only one. Thus, life is life.

To me, observing Little Ant, I too initially think how pointless and purposeless her little life is. I mean look, she's just crawling around, not really going anywhere, just stretching her legs and occasionally picking up a crumb or two. But she's content, she has food enough to eat and look, she's not the only one.

And then it hits me. Maybe her purpose is to remind people like me that I'm not the only one, that everyone is searching in their own way and that even though she'll never know it, she's affected me and perhaps others like me. It's immeasureable but so is the effect that we constantly have on others.

The value that I keep wanting to create is not something that I can necessarily measure nor even realize. No one is ever really alone or above affecting others. If anyone is like me (which I'm confident you all are) you find yourself sometimes affected by the most insignificant things. The couple walking along the sidewalk and the girl's innocent smile as she gently puts her hand in the crook of her boyriend's arm. The man carrying a pomeranian who stops to nuzzle the dog while he waits for his friend. The little ants on the ground...

We are all ants in our own way, inadvertantly and genuinely affecting the world in indefinite and immeasureable ways.