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The Great King and The Little Ant
There once was a little ant who
lived in a tiny village in a very poor country in a forgotten part of the
world. But this village looked very big to our little ant and he wondered how
big the whole world was. He was awestruck by the size of the large white cows
and bulls and also how strong the buffalo were.
Though these beasts were very
large, he also was in awe at the size of chickens and hogs. He once almost got
pecked up by a chicken, but luckily he blended well with the dark sand and the
chicken pecked up a piece of discarded rice that was almost twice the size of
our little ant.
The ant became fairly wise. He
noticed that there was an old man in the village that everyone respected. He
finally learnt that this old man was the chief of the village and that he had
much wisdom and authority. In the mind of the little ant, the chief was the
most powerful man in the whole world.
So our little ant decided one day
to move into the chief’s house. There was always enough rice thrown out that
the ant could feast on and also to store up enough for the winter. Our little
ant was so smart that he even began to understand the language of the people.
He also understood their body
language, and he loved to translate the humans’ actions and words to his fellow
ants, who by now had truly come to respect him also.
There was also a special thing
there in the house of the chief. It took our ant a while to be able to
pronounce it, but finally he could say this big word. It was a television. There
were wire things on top of it, and another wire thing connected it to a box
thing that the humans called a battery.
Our little ant noticed that the chief
always stared at this thing that they called a television, and that after the chief
looked at it, the chief was much wiser than before. So our little ant said to
himself that if he too would stare at this thing they call a television, that
he also would become wise – perhaps the wisest ant in the whole world. Our little
ant knew how big the world was, because he had traveled extensively. One of his
trips took him three months, and covered the area of the chief’s house, the
neighbors’ kitchen and the pig pen. From there he could even see the water well,
but he never went that far. At least he could say that he saw the end of the
world, because nothing existed on the other side of the well, or so he thought.
One day our little ant crawled up
to the shoulder of the chief, while the chief was again staring at the
television to enrich his wisdom. Our little ant could understand everything. But
one day he saw a very important man on the television. The television speaker
said that this man was the most powerful man in the whole world, for he was the
Great King of a far country, which was also the most powerful country in the
world.
It was hard for our little ant to
believe that anybody could be more powerful than the chief, but this is what
the television said, so it must be true, thought the little ant. He was almost
overwhelmed by this thought, and for some strange and unknown reason our little
ant developed the greatest and most intense desire of his life:
He wanted to meet this Great King.
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