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Uncover the Meaning to Life With These Videos of Ants Eating Junk Food

The Internet has finally listened to our collective prayers and delivered unto us the deepest, most insightful aphorism ever conceived.

If you had to guess, just how many hours of your life are spent sitting in a darkened windowless room, pondering the meaning of life? If you happen to be anything like us and your uneventful life is largely filled with daydreams about pizza and Furbys, it's probably too many hours to count.

Thankfully, all that is about to change, because the Internet has finally listened to our collective prayers and delivered unto us the deepest, most insightful aphorism ever conceived.

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And it just so happens to be a bunch of ants slowly eating junk food in a time-lapse.

Is this a metaphor for life, a stance on the perils of food waste, or merely the meeting of nature and technology in one delightful dispatch?

Either way, the description of the YouTube account—Ants Eating Stuff to Stock Music—reads as follows: "Nothing more than oddly satisfying time-lapse videos of ants eating stuff all set to random stock music."

Simple yet profound—we approve.

After watching one or two of the time-lapses, you might be wondering to yourself why all of the food throughout the videos is slowly but surely enveloped by a pile of leaves and twigs. As the poster explains below one of the videos, "They [the ants] cover it with leaves and sticks to protect their find then slowly work to take it all back to the colony."

Mystery solved.

So, what is the meaning of life? We're trying to sift through the metaphorical tea leaves and figure that out, but rest assured, the answer is most definitely in the assorted videos of Ants Eating Stuff to Stock Music. Maybe an extraordinarily learned—and well-fed—ant with a penchant for forgetful music can codify it for you.

All we have to say is the following: Are you not entertained?