
One hot afternoon around 2 o'clock...just after having my lunch i was sitting on the floor watching tv...suddenly i noticed a chain of around 10-15 ants marching down the floor...as if they were on a mission..then i realized that they were up for a feast...they had found small piece of sweet somewhere and they are busy breaking that into bits and carrying it to there shelter...At times i wonder how do they get the information about these chunks of food...they have an outstanding network indeed..they don't posses gadgets like human beings but still...while i was thinking about this suddenly something struck in my mind and i just decided to break their chain without hurting them...i got hold of one of them from the middle of the chain and placed it on a different zone altogether around 30 cms from that line...there was an unrest in the chain and the ant just behind the one i dislocated..was clueless..it seemed that it had lost everything in this world and was left in no man's land...desperately searching for the lost one...imagine if this was queue of human beings...we would have loved to see someone get out of the queue by whatever means...but these little insects are not human beings..perhaps they don't think that much...now coming to the lost ant, it was lost in an ocean,the floor of the room has turned into an ocean...it couldn't spot anything where to go what to do...it pauses for two seconds and starts to move first in the wrong direction then a stop then again a turn and again moves this time in the right direction mind you they don't have access to radars...after 5 minutes that broken chain is linked and things are back to normal but guess what those two ants are still missing...as they say life moves on...the lost ant doesn't give up its search as it moves on stumbling,crashing into the furniture stands by the time it had also lost that tiny chunk of sweet which it had grabbed...but rite now getting back to the chain was the main agenda..
the other ant which was on the search was also eventually lost...interestingly they were not very far from each other which i could see but they....seconds after they were as close as half a centimeter but then there was a knock on the gate of my house and suddenly my mother rushed to the gate..while she made her way to the gate she didn't realize that she had killed both those ants in the process but i did because i was observing them for quite some time now...there's nothing fancy about this whole incident but a certainly a lot to learn...they might be tiny little insects but they certainly posses a lot of qualities that we human beings don't...
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