The Ant Story

On a fine Sunday morning, the curtains of my window opened and the beautiful rays of the sun entered my room to wake me up to a beautiful day.. The feeling of.. Duh, N.O.. Who am I kidding? I woke up in the afternoon with my eyes swollen, looking like a soaked Soya chunk. Besides, the tension that I had to start a whole new subject for the exam that I had on the next day had started to take over me. An ant had bitten me in my eye and I woke up to the pain of it. I told a friend about this in the evening and he told, “Imagine what the ant would have thought when it bit you...” (Not his exact words but something like this) He actually got me thinking about what the ant must have thought before it bit me.

Ants have always been curious creatures to me. When I was a kid, I heard words like “Learn from the ants.. They maintain a better queue than you do...” And, I have always wondered if they tried to impress their P.T teacher by doing so. An ant, as we all know, collects food much in advance, which is why we find them lurking in all the kitchens of the world. They apparently have a queen ant, which is The Boss and is probably responsible for assigning various houses to the ants to raid for food. 

I did find some ants in my kitchen, which were diligently collecting food because hey, the winter is coming. (:P) But, some of the ants probably thought, “Dude, I have collected enough food for the day.. Let me go bite some eyes and make the person look like a douche bag.” I had to apply oil, and what not to reduce the swelling and make me look less of a douche.

I frankly have no idea what ants think when they do what they do. You may call it their defense but I was sleeping and not fighting a war with the ants. This, nevertheless, does not make ants less interesting creatures for me. There are still millions of facts about ants that make me want to put my hands into my mouth and go "Hawww.." I would have written more but, I find something ticklish in my ear.. Must be an ant.

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