Patience and other lessons from the chinese Bamboo

Nowadays, we all try to live a fast paced lifestyle neglecting the founding principles which is evident in nature and all creations. The bamboo which is the fastest growing plant in the world, does not begin its growth in such haste.

Zig Ziglar, the famous motivational speaker, once told the story of the Chinese Bamboo Tree which when planted, watered, and nurtured for an entire growing season doesn't outwardly grow as much as an inch.

Then, after the second growing season, a season in which the farmer takes extra care to water, fertilize and care for the bamboo tree, the tree still hasn't sprouted. So it remains like that for four solid years. The farmer and his wife have nothing tangible to show for all of their labour trying to grow the tree.

Then, along comes year five.
In the fifth year that Chinese bamboo tree seed finally sprouts and the bamboo tree grows up to eighty feet in just one growing season!

Isn't that just wonderful?

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Toiled ever upward through the night

Though your efforts are not evident now, no one sees your work and labour. Don't quit! Just keep working!






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