Halls of the Dark Muse

I was out on the front lawn petting my cat, and along the edge of the lawn there was this trail of ants and my cats tail was in the middle of their trail and every now and than my cat would start to sweep his tail back and forth sending the ants scattering and causing them disarry and chaos.

Watching this really made me think of our Bigfoots, Loch Ness Monsters, Aliens and UfOs because from the point of view of the ants this cat tail that keeps sweeping through the middle of their path must appear like some sort of monstrous being which is seemingly attacking them for no apparent reason.

Or, we have these two little trees in the backyard in barrels, and the ants like to live in the trees and when it it is time to water them the ants start pouring out of the barrels in droves carrying their eggs and food and what not, and a part of me feels sorry for them because I don't mean to disrupt their home, but the trees need water, but it is also fascinating to watching and it does make me feel God-like. Not in some egotistical, sadistic sort of way, but just thinking about what it must be like from the ants point of view.

They probably are not aware of the fact that they are living in a tree that needs to be watered, so they are probably just thinking "ahhh its the flood again, the flood" and I am like this giant inconceivable being to them that has the ability to control their environment and reek havoc upon them and cause these "natural disasters."

Thinking of all the things we do intentionally or unintentionally that must be so baffling to other living creatures and yet have such a significant impact upon their existence really puts things in a different perspective for me when I think of all the things which happen to us that we cannot provide a rational explanation for.

What would we see if we could see the full picture?

Maybe we are just ants to some race of giants which are beyond our ability to conceive of, and they periodically do things, perhaps sometimes just to amuse themselves, and perhaps just in the course of their daily lives that impact us and they are up their laughing at us thinking what silly, foolish creatures they are.

And in the eyes of the universe we really are just ants.