Are you an Ant or a Dragonfly? What’s on in August
I remember well those hot August mornings in Azerbaijan when I was a child. By 6am, it was already too hot to move. Just sitting in the shade, you’d be drenched in sweat. School holidays stretched long through the summer and on the surface, it looked like a lazy, easy time of year.
But the reality was very different.
Just like in Ivan Krylov’s poem The Dragonfly and the Ant, if you wanted to survive the winter, there was no time to rest. All summer long, I was chopping, dicing, washing, and stirring vegetables while my grandmother made fruit compotes, jams, jars of gherkins, and an enormous barrel of sauerkraut. I scrubbed carpets in the garden with icy water (the only fun part), shampooing and rinsing until my fingers and feet were raw. We washed heaps of sheep wool and beat it with willow sticks to fill our duvets — work that left my hands blistered and aching.
August, for us, was about endurance, not ease. And that rhythm stayed with me for years, long after I left home.
Then last year, I decided to do something radical: take the whole of August off. I thought I’d earned my dragonfly summer — light, carefree, and flowing. But swinging from one extreme to the other didn’t work either. I couldn’t relax. I felt restless and unsettled.
That’s when I realised: I was still carrying the energy of the Ant. Somewhere deep in my system, I had inherited the belief that suffering was the price of survival.
So I did the healing work. I found the middle ground this summer: a new way to honour the wisdom of both energies — the hard-working ant and the dancing dragonfly.
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