Ants Marching, Anshu

I'd like to devote this blog post to, not so much the text, but a possible future the text implicitly points to. In one area, the author refers to ants and how one ant is willing to sacrifice itself for the benefit of the whole. In a sense, these little ants are true Buddhas, utterly desire less. Its interesting to Imagine(john lennon) a world where humans would be willing to give up their personal pleasures for the happiness of others. It's true selfish desire has it's purpose, namely competition. However, humanity has the potential for, and here is the kicker, proactive selfless development versus reactive selfish development. Personally, I aspire to the ideal that one should push oneself because it's just right, and not because reactive necessity forces our minds or bodies to do work. We are evolutionarily designed to work only when competing and relax when there is no need. But, there is a disjunction between evolution and self aware evolution. We have the ability to be proactive, and actively take evolution into our own hands. I point to Thoreau, or the Buddha. Their actions influenced billions, and will continue to do so. Similarly, our actions will absolutely do the same. If you proactively push your mind, body, and morality to extremes simply for the sake of doing so, these actions will influence mankind for millenia to come. Perhaps because of your efforts, your children will be that much smarter, and then they will be able to get into that college, and then meet that girl of their dreams, and then have many smart grandchildren who go on to help the world, who have more children who are super moral and become MLK's and Ghandis and start social revolutions because the world is not fair, and not living up to it's potential. A ripple in a pond. That what we all are. Let's try and make the ripple count.