“Work like an ant and live like a butterfly.” is a typical saying of famous American photographing journalist Robert Capa. Many people like to quote his saying to express diligent work and poetic life.
Actually we not only work like an ant, but also live like an ant. “Live like a butterfly” maybe forever like a dream, which is not so easy as the difficulty to become a butterfly in the dream like Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher. Because we human beings just have so much heavy burden, so endless desire and missing in the world.
To work like an ant and live like a butterfly maybe one perfect attitude we can have to coordinate our life and work.
To pursue our personal development and follow the trend of this modern worlds with ups and downs, we have to “work like an ant”. Ant is a kind of social animal like living in groups and it can survive in any bad environment in any corner of the world. The secret of ant’s living social lifestyle is its’ favor of living in an organic team form.
Ants divide their labor by severe disciplines. They work together and build their home together. They fight together hard in front of enemies and work together to move to another home place when their original home is in disaster.
Ants is strong in their adaptability as you can see them in all places, such as in cities, forests, villages or even skyscrapers with concrete structure.
Their weak body can’t change the environment around them but they can quickly adapt to a new environment. Learn to adapt yourself first and then learn how to survive, this is what ants have taught us.
Work as hard and active as ant. Make your efforts continuously and endlessly.
“Live like a butterfly” is a beautiful life or a cool life in someone’s eyes. These understanding may not be complete enough. A butterfly is free and beautiful. They’re beauties in poems and ancient stories. We can’t control our destiny completely. But we can change our attitudes.
We can live like a butterfly by putting down pressure and enjoy colors in life when there’s no work. This is an optimistic and active life attitude. It may sound a little idealistic, but we can do it as long as we adjust our own mind.
We need to learn to work effectively and enjoy every little in life, including love, touching and happiness, and finally we can live like a butterfly.
Boring and tedious work is contradicted with freedom in life. We want to get rid of limitations from work for eager of freedom. However, we have to be bundled by work to survive.
We should work like an ant in a hard, persisting, active, long-lasting, brave and bold way.
We should live like a butterfly in a happy, wonderful and colorful way.
“Work like an ant and live like a butterfly.” is an active working attitude and optimistic life gesture.
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