Learning from the Life of Ants

Learning from the Life of Ants
Learning can be anywhere, anytime, from any source and learning media. Learning is not only pursued through formal or informal education, but nature also provides a source that can be an inspiration in learning life. One that can be a "teacher" in learning is the ant animal. Although physically the ants are small, but there are some lessons we can take from ants.

1. Never Give Up
   Ever tried to block the path of an ant? What happened? The ant must try to find another way. We block again another way to go, and he still looking for another way to continue his journey. Soon we blocked his path and certainly he kept looking for another way he would even climb, despite the risk of losing his life. The lesson we can derive from it is that an ant never gives up on any obstacles that hinder or obstruct its purpose.

2. Team Work.
   If you want to learn cooperation, we must learn to ants. If an ant finds a large enough food, then it will invite his colleagues to jointly carry the food to their warehouse. They will feed the food from all directions and try to bring it together. If the food is too big and heavy to carry together, then they will tear the food into small pieces and bring the small pieces to their sheds. No one bragged because he had found the food. No one can boast about being able to carry larger pieces. Even if traveling there is a big and deep gap that runs its course, it turns out that there are some ants sacrificing themselves by way of pasting themselves into a life bridge to smooth the work of other ant colleagues. Their goal is only one, cooperation completes the great work.

3. Preparing supplies
   During the dry season, they collect logistical supplies in a warehouse built in their nests that are sufficient for thousands of their family members' ants. This is as a provision to anticipate during the rainy season that causes ants to find difficult food outside the nest. During the rainy season, ant colonies are also still looking for food despite struggling harder against the rain. In the world of ants there is a clear and decisive division of task, who does what and is responsible for what. The queen is in charge of laying eggs, there are ants in charge of caring for the eggs, the males in charge of fertilizing the Queen and after completing the task, usually immediately die. Worker ants are on duty to find food for everyone's needs, there are also ants that accept the food supplies brought by the worker ants and store them in some kind of storage warehouse, it seems to me they are in charge of keeping the food supply. The ant does what it does, no one feels tired, saturated, let alone protests.

4. Jago kiss opportunities
   Did the saying "There Is Sugar There Ants". Concretely, make an experiment put a little sugar on the floor that no ants in the 100-meter radius, leave about half an hour, then return to the sugar, what's going on? There must be ants going around even taking the sugar. Remember! there was no ant at all now suddenly there was an ant.

5. Respect for others
   Ants when meeting with their friends they greet each other as a form of homage to others. How many times have you greeted your brother when he met? To what extent do you honor your brother? Do not we hurt our siblings more than we do good? Do not we slander more of our brothers, humiliated by envy, envy, revenge on our brother? If the answer is yes, then it seems that the naming of one of the suras of the Qur'an as a surah an-Naml (letter ant) ​​does give a message to take wisdom from the life of ant that is so high respect for each other.

An ant never stops, despair, frustration, fear to always try and try to keep it to its destination. While we humans, who are said to be the best equipped creatures of mind instead like the opposite, even many still commit suicide because of frustration. We must be better than the small but productive ants. Never get frustrated again, keep trying with the best ways and methods. Definitely and surely we will arrive at our goal of success.