Ann & Ants

In this little plot of land beside my house, I was removing unsightly weeds which are great nuisances. The greedy grass robbed nutrients from the soil that limited the growth of my precious vegetables plants.

While plucking the 'wild grass', I felt a sharp pinch on my left toe.

“Ouch..! That hurts.”

When I looked down, I saw a tiny weenie ant prickling my skin with its "spear".
I quickly brushed him aside to avoid further attack. I rubbed my foot to ease the itchiness created by the bite. It was slightly swollen but I knew it would disappear in no time.

A colony of reddish ants was seen crawling towards me. Probably I had invaded into their little territory ..that’s why they’re attempting to protect it. They must be the fiery army ants based on their protruding abdomen which served as their weapon.

I moved and squatted a little further. It was rather interesting to watch those ants as I gotten this idea to post about it in my blog.

I peered at the tiny creatures with fascination.

Each ant was carrying a tiny morsel of food.

“They looked funny but smart and intelligent”, I thought.

Ants are known to have this hardworking nature.
They effortly search, find, collect, transport and store their food in preparation for the bad weathers. Unlike human …whom are simply too lazy to work. A certain quarters rely on the government to “feed” them. Along with the special privileges like subsidies, quota and a listful~ seems to make these people even lazier to move their bums. What say you ?

Ants created beautiful team-work operations
“They're the most industrious and co-operative living creature on earth,” I should say.

When performing their task, ants are very systematic, organized, disciplined, orderly and wise too.

The ants colony

The Queen's role is for reproduction purposes….(easy job huh…day in day out only sit and lay eggs). There is only ONE Queen. And she worked hard to expand her community.

Hey...ain't easy laying eggs...you know. But she never complains coz it's her duty.

Meanwhile, the soldiers act as the guardian (hundredth times better that our country's defence force)

The worker ants are responsible for the food searching task. Hey...you think easy ...ah to prepare food for thousands mouths !

Each and every ant has their own duty to perform. There's no time-table nor written rules for the to follow. Work is done in perfect harmony with no personal grudges among their peers. They perform their respective tasks ever so diligently and without the slightest whimper nor complaint.

Ants don't need any bonuses, salary increments, recognitions, awards, .....in order to fulfill their daily job. They don't "murder" each other for promotions. They don't "stab each others back". The strong ones don't abuse their power by squeezing their weaker counterparts for more gains. Ants don't segregate their species according to colours.....simply no discrimination.

Every single ant is equally important.

Surprisingly, ants need not have to attend any team building nor motivational courses in order to work well as a team. The irony is that ants do not have brains as sophisticated like human beings. Therefore, why can this tiny creature act so wonderfully in their daily life and NOT human beings?

See how extraordinary ants can be?

Human should emulate and learn from Ants and if possible behave like one too….of course..la..I’m not asking you to act like the Queen Ant.

Try to pick up some pointers from this little creature. ANTS THE GREAT