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When I was lying on the grass last weekend, tanning my back, in front of me; a small ant carrying a leaf caught my attention. It went up and down the different strands of grass, on the way to its hill beyond.
I was just thinking, why did he have to go up and down the strands instead of crawling on the ground between the strands? I started parting the grass, like parting your little sister's hair before tying them up. Beneath the minuscule jungle of grass revealed a micro-metropolis of insects… earwigs, centipedes, worm holes, and a myriad of other unrecognized insects along with more ants. Right below our feet, there is a parallel world that we are oblivious to. An immense society of bugs thrived right there in my own backyard.
Juvenile thoughts of getting a magnifying glass from the kitchen drawer beckoned me. Being a few notches up the food chain stirs these thoughts, but seeing our little friends going about their business echoed our own human lives like driving to work on the 400 highways and streets during rush hour.
So I felt like a giant… but also like an ant… in our solar system…
...a microbe in our Milky Way.
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Short time TA, Long time Guver, Good time giver.
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