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The Ant and the Contact Lens: A True Story
Jul 29, 2006


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Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite cliff. She was standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather as this is her first rock climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against her eye and knocked out her contact lens. "Great", she thought. "Here I am on a rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the top of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry." She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the ledge. But it just wasn't there.

She felt the panic rising in her...

When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that she was at the top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see across the range of mountains.

Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the cliff they met another party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?"

Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across a twig on the face of the rock, carrying it!

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Now that Brenda got her contact lense back, she was happy that she clould clearly see across the range of mountains which she could not earlier... all thanks to our friend, Mr. Ant.

This story has been edited to shorten the length, and to shine the spotlight on the ant alone.

Moral of the story:

"Most people don't think frogs, toads, ants and alike are cute or very charismatic, but saving animals isn't a beauty contest." ~ From Animal Showboat to Animal Lifeboat

"Each time we walk out of our front door, we are in another animals home. We need to pause, imagining the world through their eyes, their ears and their noses. And we need to walk softly, taking care in not to crush our shared earth with each and every step. Being compassionate isn't scientific, but it is our responsibility and opportunity to make the earth a more humane place, for all creatures, great and small." ~ From Animal Showboat to Animal Lifeboat
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Posted: Saturday July 29, 2006, 11:48 pm
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