This incident is true. The other day I boiled a bowl of milk and left it on my kitchen platform to allow it to cool before putting it into the refrigerator. About an hour later when I returned to the bowl of milk I saw several red ants gloriously feasting on the border of cream at the surface. Annoyed, I just shook the vessel only to send some of them straight into the milk. Realizing my mistake, I took a spoon and edged it into the milk to let the ants climb up from the liquid.

Now, we all know that red ants can bite leaving you with a mixed feeling of pain and itching. As this thought crossed my mind, involuntarily I began to crush the ants one by one as I lifted them out of the milk with the spoon.

It is said that nothing on earth can give you greater joy than living and experiencing the present. As I mindlessly crushed these ants, suddenly I became aware of what I was doing. Fear and apprehension that these ants could bite made me kill them.

By rushing too far into the future, what actions have we taken because we believed our fears? Besides killing our own "present" what else have we been killing? To remind ourselves, FEAR is False Evidences Appearing Real.