Stories of Us - October 1, 2021

Stories of Us - October 1, 2021
Posted on 10/01/2021
Partnership Educators,
Living where we do, we have a long-standing tradition of going outside and enjoying the beautiful location of mountains, lakes, and forests.  Many times when we make our way out to these locations we take along food to enjoy a time to break bread with family or friends and enhance the experience.   This does open us up to the long-standing battle we encounter with nature.  If left out long enough we will find a line of marching ants crawling all over the place taking whatever they need. 
Ants are amazing creatures.  They can easily carry things more than 50 times their body mass and will patiently travel several miles to bring a prize home to the colony.  Several miles, can you imagine?  Whilst I don't necessarily want them running amok in my kitchen or on my picnic food, there is certainly a lot I can learn from them.  
When ants are on the trail for food, they don't let obstacles stand in their way.  They don't stand around with their hands on their hips and looking at each other in disbelief.  They don't throw in the towel the moment things get hard.  They don't shrug their shoulders and simply give up.  There are no excuses or apologies.  They don't feel sorry for themselves and decide that success isn't for them.  Ants honor grit and overcome but do not quit.
Charles Darwin has always been associated with "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection."  But in truth, Charles Darwin was always amazed by the kindness and cooperation he observed in nature.  Darwin actually wrote that communities with the most sympathetic members would flourish best and rear the most offspring.  So many people believed that it was always the alpha males who will win, but that is not what Darwin suggested or has demonstrated.  According to him, the most successful; strategy in survival is friendliness and cooperation. 
As an example of Darwin's findings, let's think of dogs.  We know that dogs are related to wolves.  Dogs become friends with and cooperate with humans.  This has made their kind flourish over the planet and yet wolves are an endangered species in some locations.  
It does us no good to not be friendly and cooperate with others within our system.  The most successful systems will be friendly and cooperate with each other.  We are all not going to agree with our current situation but we can all choose to be friendly, cooperate, and not judge others.  Please focus on the job at hand (staying at school to teach kids) like our successful ants (getting that food back to the colony).  
"Don't judge me by my past, I don't live there anymore."  and "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."  Mother Teresa
We got this folks.  Let's do what we have to do for our kids.  They really deserve us to step up for them.
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Have a fantastic weekend,
Rob     
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