AWARENESS

Don’t Blame Each Other for Anything. Just Ask: “Who Shook the Jar of Ants?”

Red and black ants never fight until someone shakes the jar

Desiree Driesenaar
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
4 min readJun 13, 2021

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Ant. Picture: Roman Grac via Pixabay

Nature has all the answers. Even for world peace. And today I wanna share a story with you that I heard from David Attenborough. I don’t know exactly in which film it was. I just know that he gave me the inspiration.

“If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar, nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other.

Red believes that black is the enemy, while black believes that red is the enemy when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.

The same is true in society. Men vs Women. Black vs White. Faith vs Science. Young vs Old. Etc…

Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves:
Who shook the jar?”

~ David Attenborough ~

Experimentation

It’s not a very nice experiment for the ants, I know. And I haven’t tested it to see for myself if it is true. But I do know that I see a lot of overlap with our society right now. So many people are shouting to be heard. So many people are…

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