The Audacity.

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Ants , am I right? What the actual. It’s appearance defies the odds. Even this very tiny one, can carry between 10 to 50 times its body weight.

How can something so practically invisible… insignificant…in the day to day hustle… have taken on that mission? Of that size? And for what? I honestly never would have paid it any mind except for… what is that? How is that …what is that a wing? My amazement at the audacity. A wing three or four million times its size. I don’t do math.

And yet…and yet. Though the strategy may seem questionable, the spirit is undeniable.

This ant saw the size of the mission and thought, yeah, I got this. Solo. Without question, picked it up, steadied itself and started out. Even the other ants in the video were screaming at the ant…yer nutz buddy! Who do you think you are?! Yer never gonna make it!

Why “Chicks” are Exclusively Superhuman…

Here’s a fun fact…female ants differ massively in strength, with male ants. Yeah. turns out chicks are way stronger. The great google machine said the “superhuman strength” of ants you see demonstrated here, are applied exclusively to females. Male ants are completely “unequipped for heavy lifting.” I didn’t say it. But I repeated it with a measure of glee for sure.

Leave that right there.

Where was I? Oh… the strategy may seem questionable, the spirit is strong.

Taking Risks and Building Unbreakable Self-Trust

There are moves you make and burdens you carry on paths of uncertainty. Yet, someone in that tribe needs that dang wing, so you do the damn thing. You look nuts. But something in your gut is drawing you to that oversized wing that probably no one is gonna like or want or know what to do with… but here it is.

You take risks for reasons unknown sometimes. You walk the line. Live on the edge, maybe to know you’re alive. And sure, maybe you’ll fall but you will have given it your all. Not screaming with fear from an edge you’ve never found enough courage to venture over. You have entered an unknown. A darkness and now have light. A new understanding of your limits. Your strengths.

It’s cliche to say the journey is the final destination. So I will say this: you’ve set out on your path and encounter something you think you can’t possibly take on. Something that seems crazy, maybe only makes sense to you. You are going to look like you have lost your mind if you carry this oversized wing from a dead insect back to the tribe. But this time you take the risk. Maybe someone wants the wing? Who knows? So you test your will, building up that primal strength to survive, to go beyond the bounds you have tested yourself in previously. You teeter in the sound of the whispers and faces full of laughs, but you don’t fail. You keep the mission. A mission to yourself. I am bringing this wing home to Marsha.

Is it about the wing? No. It’s about the essential trust in yourself, an unbreakable sense…that no matter the terrain on the path, You’ve got it.

That’s new. That level of trust in self. It’s the fact that you were moved to a mission and you did it. And found out that you could do it again. You indeed do have it in you. Have what it takes to carry an oversized mission to completion.

Who said you couldn’t?