Every time it rains, ant houses must be flooded, right? And so throughout the rainy season, do ants spend most of their time choking with rain water and mud, having the roof come down on their heads, struggling to get out, watching their families die, their carefully stored food washed away, and then when the rain stops, go down and bring out all that mud in small lilliputian mouthfuls, without pausing to grieve - and then go through the entire process again and again and again? (Any myrmecologists out there who can answer this?)
You mean they live through this destruction and reconstruction and destruction, ad infinitum, all their short lives?
Is it easier for them to be Sisyphus-es because they cannot think or remember, and therefore cannot despair?
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise"*.
Is
there another lesson here apart from the hard work?
*Proverbs 6:6. The New Testament
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