For last few days I am
quite puzzled with an indecent behaviour of ants. They are roaming everywhere
in my home. They are searching even places like my study table, bed etc where
there have no chance of having a morsel of food. Last few days I have spent
enough time with them to study their behaviour. To experiment with their
activity I place some sugar cubes on the floor and amazingly one ant first
visit the place and go back but don’t carry it. After sometime they came in
numbers and start collecting it. This behaviour of a tiny insects teach me a
high philosophy of life, I am fully plagued. Their social bondage and living
style uniquely mark a significance of an elevated way of life.
Pix by Amit K Sikder
Great Bengali poet
Rabindranath Tagore’s first journey into the intricate world of highest
creativity and art started with an avid observation on them. A typical dish of
Bengali comprised of Amsatta (an
Indian fruit leather made out of mango pulp), Dudh (milk) and Sandesh
(is a dessert made out of milk and sugar) when is being enjoyed by someone with
a sound ‘Hapus Hupus’ (a Bengali colloquial used to represent sound of eating liquid or semi-liquid food) only few ants
are approaching it, this event was first scripted by Tagore in his creative
world.
There are several reasons
of their intrusion in home. I am not going to that topic. To get rid of this
for the time being I was enquiring about how to control their movement. But at
the end my ‘mission ant’ concluded with a best learning in my life and lured me
to write something what I have perceived so far. When workers of their
community find a source of food they return to their colony and on the way
excrete a chemical called pheromone, which triggers a social response in
members, and make a trail so that it becomes easier to others to find the food.
What a sense of togetherness they practice in their life. And the whole
algorithm of their movement at the behest of togetherness leaves us with a
highest lesson of life.
Where we lack the
Pheromones of life? The gradual growth of civilisation has brought a radical
change in our life. We have grown manifold in number of aspects but somewhere
live a solitary in society. The breakdown of joint-family system into
micro-family concept is a crude example of that. It does not benefit us anyway
rather make us more isolated and severely blocks the all-round development of
mental etiquette.
How we can restore a habit
of Pheromones in our life? This quarry should get a priority call I think for
making society a secured place of participation. We don’t lack in resources.
Yes we have. Like ants we have our democracy pheromone. It has a tremendous
will to gather us together in a moment. The highest philosophy of democracy
will help us to play an ant in our life. Today this moment I am highly
optimistic about bringing back all our lost identities in life in a radical
way. Democracy here will help us a big to collect our food and livelihood.
While trying to find a way-out
on how to control ants in house in internet I got some interesting information.
Like, they symbolise good luck and prosperity. I am not sure about it. But it genuinely
has blessed me with a clue of how to prosper in life. From today onwards the
strict algorithm of ants will be my best learning in life. And above all it has
unfolded me with an understanding of the highest philosophy of democracy. My puzzle
with ants finally has finished with a message of prosperity for all. Let us do
ant in life.
Very nice!
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