The Ant and the Antelope one day were sunbathing on the grass side by side nary a worry in this world as they had just finally eloped from the obligations of the path with their past family obligations of shoulds, woulds, have-tos. And were in fact both free now to live a little their own way unfettered and unbound by what once was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so on their backs they lay. And reminisced about the past of how hard they were done by by their old world, by all the new world of opportunities they had all both missed because of what they had been tied to, as well as all the ant and antelope people that they could blame for their misfortunes and misdeeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On and on they lay there amidst the glorious grass and sun basking in the truth of their now newfound freedom and they both continued to laugh and trade stories about their past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They met every day for the rest of their newfound lives in this way, speaking of the past, grieving about the misdeeds, and STOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHey Ant..you\u2019re looking older today.\u201d Says the Antelope to the Ant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the Ant stops abruptly mid tirade of the past and say to the Antelope,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy you good sir too look older as I do indeed!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhere did the time go? What have we been doing?\u201d They admitted as they looked around them in a daze, at the sun, at the grass beneath and around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I only got to sunbathe!” exclaimed Antelope<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ant: <\/em>“No you didn\u2019t. You and we both got a chance to talk about our past and blame everyone in it that we did not get our tough or big break.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Antelope:<\/em> “But we did get our tough or big break! We\u2019re lying here right now enjoying it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ant:<\/em> “Doing what?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antelope: <\/em>“Why doing what we love to do best: Living in the past and blaming others for why we\u2019re not given a chance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ant: <\/em>“But there\u2019s no one else around us to blame but the two of us!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No that\u2019s not true.” Antelope shakes his head wisely and continues <\/p>\n\n\n\n “They live on in our heads and in the stories we share with each other. This is what I love to do with the freedom that I\u2019ve worked so hard to be given. I love to live in the past.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ant: <\/em>“But we didn\u2019t need to leave all that behind to come here to keep doing it did we?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antelope: <\/em>“Yes we did. How can we continue to blame them\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n\n and then in mid sentence they died peacefully into a permanent slumber.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ant and the Antelope one day were sunbathing on the grass side by side nary a worry in this world as they had just finally eloped from the obligations of the path with their past family obligations of shoulds, woulds, have-tos. And were in fact both free now to live a little their own […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[24,29,21,23,9,28,8,27,22],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-godspeak","tag-healyourmind","tag-hearthealth","tag-intelligence","tag-mindfulness","tag-parable","tag-selfimprovement","tag-stories","tag-truth"],"yoast_head":"\n