ants and humans

     If you are reading this, you are beginning a journey that will take you far beyond the ordinary day to day meanderings onto an easily accessible yet scarcely traveled path towards ONE. Everyday we humans go about our daily lives, we pass each other up with at most a nod, a hello, a friendly smile. Even stranger, sometimes we come into physical contact, whether it be a bump or a purposeful wandering hand into a member of the opposite sex, which both of these usually result in an apology. Our community wired brain has a short circuit deep deep deep down and it is resulting in the wrong kind of ONE. Where we used to have community gatherings, we now have self outings. We are guilty of relying on ourselves, yet losing the gift of others to enhance our mundane lives. It's time we learn to share, accept, love and bump one another all over again. 
     Have you ever watched ants? Nature shows have told me there are autonomous shells of life that scuttle about the ground, trees, my sandwich, all under the direction of a Queen ant. She needs food to survive and make more ants, so she has a hierarchy of ants to do her work. Some search for food, some move larvae out of their hole when I pour water on their home, and some are soldiers who defend their home. Very interesting concept here, sounds to me like we humans  are...similar? Do we not have a queen which we provide food for? Ok, maybe not a literal queen, but an entity, body, idea or somerather we put ourselves out for daily to make happy? Whether it be food or services. Yes, our government. Our government is dependent on us people to keep functioning, but we can take it a step backwards in time. We used to be community based peoples, without reigning empires with battleships and space shuttles. Even when we were hunter gatherers, were we not a community? Let me focus more on the community here, than the government gigantic city-states we are a part of now.
     How about then larvae movers? From what I can tell when I am drowning their home, they are the same ants that are out dismantling the grasshopper on my sidewalk, just on a different work schedule. Maybe these have the day off, so they get to just kick it with their soon to be comrades. Who cares, but we humans take care of our young, our old, ourselves. When we are not working trying to provide food for , or queen, don't we just hang out at home with babies? Say yes now, we all do. Ok, maybe not, but we all do get days off, and these babysitters are not working the food gathering business that day. 
     Soldier ants, do I need to elaborate on the similarities here? I don't think so, my point is made. Now, to get to the real point of these little ants. Spend some time watching a line of ants, at least 2.16 minutes. Do all the ants just pass each other up? I mean come on, I am pretty sure the ants going in one direction are heading to the place where the other ants going in the opposite direction came from, and vise versa. How often do you see these ants stop and make CONTACT with one another? For sure more contact than us humans that. Maybe they are saying hello, kissing, exchanging drugs or sugar, what I do know is they are making contact. 
     What purpose would a mindless drone make contact with one another under the direction of one queen ant serve? I sure as hell cannot think of a reason, can you?
     Yes I know, as well as everybody else, we all have somewhere to be or someone more important to talk to than just some person we do not know. Have you ever just struck up a conversation with someone you do not know just for conversations' sake? Do you ever just extend a hand to someone just so you can shake theirs? Each and every one of us are conscious beings who have our own experiences, wisdom, failures and successes to share with one another, yet we choose to live alone. We rely on those we know, not the ones we do not. Mainstream media allows us to look up to people we do not know, and take advice from them. I like Jay-Z and he like ________ so I think I will like ________ too!! Well guess what, Jay-Z probably does not like ________, but people pay him to so therefore we see Jay-Z liking ________. 
     Anyway, I want to get back to our human roots, and seek out people to come in contact with. I will seek out one person a day, whether it be that guy smoking a cigarette or that woman watching her child play in the park, and have human to human contact with them. I cannot even imagine how much knowledge I will be able to access through my fellow human beings after countless conversations, but what I do know is I will not be the same person I am now, I will be much much MORE!