The Mindless Worker Essay, Research Paper

The ant is a mindless worker

Thinking it can survive the rapid tides of this world

It works and works and works until it can work no more

Is it truly happy in its confined walls of its fortress

Must it work all the time to feel freedom?

I say NOT; take for instance the butterfly

The butterfly is a thirsty brook longing to become a great river

Its tides blow strong so to be free and wild in the day

Its world is gentle and its sneezes are the same

It does not live in a fortress for a world

But a heavenly heaven instead

However, one day the butterfly and the ant join powers

One is to gather a great meal for kings

And one is to provide a single moment of joy

The ant immediately picks the feast

The butterfly tells the ant to provide joy, but the ant refuses and leaves

The butterfly can’t stand this behavior and calls back the ant

The ant explains that he truly does not know what “joy” is

When the butterfly hears this, his heart sinks to hell and grows cold

The butterfly feels a great sympathy for the deprived ant

The ant lives in an everlasting, inescapable hell fire

The butterfly lives in a heavenly palace

The two are night and day!… never to be seen together

The butterfly flies away looking at the frozen image of the ant

It flies closer and closer to the sun… until it is never seen again