One prisoner spent many years in solitary confinement. He didn’t talk to anyone or see anyone: food was served to him through a special window in the wall.
One day an ant climbed into his cell. The prisoner watched the insect in rapt attention as it sauntered across the room. The man put it in his palm to get a better look, gave it a couple of grains, and covered it with his tin mug at night.
And suddenly it dawned on him that it took him ten years of solitary confinement to see the beauty of the ant!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru