story for ya
Okay, not really a story - just a weird observation I made today...(PLEASE keep in mind this has not been edited for grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. - it was written as fast as my fingers could type

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I was taking my big 15 minute lunch break today

and decided to sit on the window sill (a wide one!

LOL ) and eat my wee bitty lunch... Well, I looked down at the sidewalk under the window and saw a couple of ants... Now I know ants aren’t anything new - they’re everywhere, BUT I noticed that one ant was carrying a rather large WING that once belonged to a butterfly. The other was carrying a dead fly....now, nothing I know - until you realize that they are carring things at least twice as big as they were OVER (ant-sized)BOULDERS. They would slowly, carefully make their way back toward their hole, each taking a different path.
As I watched, I noticed not only did they each have their own chosen path, but when they hit a “boulder” they didn’t feel they could cross, they back tracked a few steps and started out again, choosing a slightly different path but heading toward the same goal. Home.
Now these were ANTS. They only went about 3 feet or so, but for an ant, that amounts to MILES!!! They carried their heavy burdens, not stopping, not faltering, not giving up, for little anty MILES! In my mind, I likened this to the weight-loss journey that so many of us struggle with. We have a monumental-seeming task with, for most of us, a well defined, well deserved, and much wanted goal. We each choose a different path and, at one point or another, hit a “block” that tells us we need to search for an alternate path to get to the goal. For quite a few of us, this becomes a time to take a couple steps back and carefully choose our new footsteps. For others of us, it becomes the point when we give up, give in, and go down - like a grasshopper dying in the fall from not enough food stores.
I know I am determined to be the ant in this journey. Steadily, aggressively, whole-heartedly going toward my goal. Never giving up, never giving in, and NEVER going down just slightly altering my chosen path when necessary. I hope you, too, become the ant.