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Picnic with an Ant

I watched an ant today. It was crawling around on the side of the concrete stoop I was sitting on. It was alone, like I was, and aimlessly walking about. At least it certainly appeared to be aimlessly walking about, that is. It may have known full well where it was going, and been marching there with all the deliberateness of  Caesar crossing the Rubicon, for all I know. Yet it looked as if it was frantically searching for something, like someone on a beach, looking for their car keys in a panic as the sun went down. Maybe it was just trying to figure out where it was (much like myself), or trying to figure out how it got there or where it should go from here (also much like myself ). Or maybe it was looking for something to eat. But what does an ant eat? If it was, in fact, looking for food, it was a good deal more motivated to find it than I was at that moment. There was a deli right across the street from where I was sitting, for example, that, despite the fact I had not had a bi