A big tiny ant

A big tiny ant

               In a world where big things matter, an ant would be the last thing you’ll remember. It crawls at the very edge of the corners. It’s as mute as a mime. It’s as minute as the tip of my pen. Yet it has something not all human beings possess – its strength to carry things five times its size and its immeasurable power for survival.

               One girl reminds me of an ant’s might and strength. She is also literally smaller than the average height of an eighteen year old. Yet there lies an extraordinary story behind her sweetness, utterly beautiful voice and curly hair.

               Zyra grew up being deprived of a memorable happy childhood. She was stuck alone in the middle of two grouching monsters. These monsters are her unwed parents who hardly coped up with each other’s differences, leaving Zyra a house with three living creatures and not a place called home.

               Everything else became much worse. Her parents found each other’s company too hard to bear; they decided to take their separate ways. Zyra was still fourteen and young but was left with no choice but to accept what fate had brought her. For the first two years of separation, she lived with her mother. Then she lived with her father for the next two years and vice versa.

               The first four years were really difficult for her. She became dependent that she had houses to run to but at the end of the day, she realized she never still had a place to call “home.”

               She has vices that her parents influenced her in doing so, smoking and drinking that is. She explored the world as a free lancer vocalist to earn money for her own. She was starting to live a messy life, not until she lived again with her mother.

               Unlike her unreasonably thrifty Chinese father, her mother spoiled Zyra with all the happiness and love she could give. Her mother perseveres to lay to her a life full of love which she failed to have felt in her childhood. Everything is becoming better.

               Though there lies no chance for her parents to take the same path again, Zyra is left with all the love a little girl could ask for because there is no greater love than what a mother can offer. It is evident in her eyes that she loves her mother more than anyone in this world.

               This little ant may still remember only one happy family memory with her parents and that was when they watched the film “Ants” together, there will always be a child within her that needs and longs for happiness in love.