The fungus changes the ant's behavior, compelling it to wander mindlessly until it stumbles onto a plant leaf with the perfect fungal breeding conditions, which it latches onto.
It shows both the hectic movement of our minds, constantly wandering, recollecting, imagining, and its moments of stillness, of concentrated focus, of listening to sounds slowly turn into rhythm.
If you don't have nothing you're working for or nothing you're shooting for, you really have no focal point in life and you wander around aimlessly all the time.
Agnes moved slowly among them, her head high, smiling at her husband's friends, who came over to greet her and share a few words while I hovered uncomfortably in the background.