Ant & A Wealthy Man……….

One Sunday morning, a wealthy man sat in his balcony enjoying sunshine and his coffee, when a little ant caught his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony carrying a big leaf several times more than its size.  The man watched it for more than an hour.  He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued towards its so called destination.

At one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor.  It paused for a little while, analysed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked over the leaf, picked the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.  The man was captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest creatures. The incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of Creation.  It showed the greatness of the Creator.  In front of his eyes there was this tiny creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to analyse, reason, explore and overcome.  Along with all the capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature shared some human shortcomings.

The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination, a tiny hole in the floor which was an entrance to its underground dwelling.  And it was at this point that the ant’s shortcomings that it shared with the man was revealed.  How could the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to carefully bring to the destination? It simply could not.

So the tiny creature, after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising great skills, overcoming all the difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went home empty-handed.  The ant had not one second thought about the end before it began its challenging journey and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a burden to it.  The creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its destination.  The man learned a great lesson that day.

Isn’t that the truth about our lives? We worry about our family, we worry about our job, how to earn more money, where we should live, must we have a 5 bedroom or 6-bedroom house, what kind of vehicle to buy, Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we reach our final destination. We do not realize in our life’s journey that these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we cannot take them with us.

The happiest people do not have the best of everything they just make   the best with everything they have. 

Stay Simple, Stay Loved and Stay Happy.