Ants and Us [incomplete]

Sitting outside, I noticed a colony of ants walking by a path. Fascinating, how these tiny creatures spend their lives [however short it may be] coordinating with a whole bunch of ants, surviving, and dying one day. They're oblivious to our existence, of course. [Can we presume that?] Laugh all you want but all of us can't prove otherwise, either. My point being, we're mere ants in a gigantic universe, where we can only shudder and stop when something unnatural happens, and then go back to to our mundane lives. I wonder if only a handful of us are curious? Or is everyone plain dumb, and watching movies like Koi Mil Gaya and Krishh suffice for and 'entertain' you enough, and quieten your curiosity?

Man has forever been curious, at the same time, that curiosity has been limited to within himself only, not outside. Risk-taking is one admirable trait in mankind, yet the risks he's taken all along are for the immediate better, usually. And so, today, he can't proudly claim, that all he has in front of him is all perfection, or working towards it. Thinking we're working towards something, it is only too late that we realise that something else is already crumbling down. A very myopic view of things then, probably. Feels ant-like, no?

            Tracing man's steps towards advancement down the ages, one can observe that for each new comfort, or discovery that he brought about, a set of problems cropped up, concomitantly. It is through mistakes though, that we learn. Could we say for sure that man is definitely at a better stature now, than he was when he beastly, and lacked a rational approach? Yes, we're more aware, of things around, and within. Man has ventured into space, too. Landed on the moon. Is it a natural thing to have had happened, then? that there are umpteen pressing issues of global or national  concern, today, all that have come up and aggravated to an uncontrollable extent, in the process of man's pursuit to living a life of perfection? What with the world having seen World Wars, and lived through pandemics, catastrophes then and now, on this spot and that. Or could things have been better?