ANTS

We more intelligent than ants, so we are supposed to be rational since animals are not. However we cannot be sure of that either.
We don’t speak their language and they don’t speak ours either.
But their actions speak louder than words.
They live in well organised colonies and well established chains of command. Every ant has a role to play in sustaining the demands of the colony.
But that is not all. As that photo of them drinking a drop of water shows, they believe in sharing their resources equally and without discrimination.
But can we say the same about ourselves? We, the intelligent of the earth?
In pursuit of our greed and competition for our earth’s diminishing resources, we have polluted rivers and lakes, produced greenhouse gases that have altered our weather patterns. Mining activities have left the land barren, and the environment so ruined, that it is now inhabitable for us and other living things.
And now, we are at the mercy of weather change, and other disasters that threaten our future survival. But even as we face the calamities that threaten us , we cannot agree among ourselves on how to save the planet.
The photo of those ants sharing resources and looking out for one another, should be a lesson for all of us.
We live in a world full of inequalities and injustices that lead us to wars and revolutions.
If what we do is what defines our intelligence, then I am afraid that the ants are way ahead of us with their unique intelligence.
Since we all live in this planet, it is the duty of all of us, the earth’s “intelligent” inhabitants, to share the responsibility of saving it.
The ants balance themselves around the drop of to save it from falling to the ground, putting it out of reach for all of them. They all lose. We should follow their example to save ourselves from extinction. We the “intelligent” beings of our earth.