Growing Your Bamboo Tree!!

In China, they grow a bamboo tree, commonly known as the Chinese bamboo tree. When they sow the seed in the ground and water it, nothing happens until the end of the first year. They continue to water it and nurture it, but nothing happens until the end of the second year. It does not germinate at the end of the third year either, but the person who grows it has to keep watering it, fertilizing it, and taking care of it. You will be surprised that nothing happens even until the end of the fourth year.

Then, in the fifth year, suddenly something miraculous and incredible happens. Within a week it grows up to 90 feet tall! This is nature at its most amazing.

People who grow other trees get the result within a season. They are able to enjoy their crops/plants/trees within a couple of seasons, but here is a tree that does not even show up until the fifth year, but suddenly shoots up to 90 feet in just one week!

The question now is: did the Chinese bamboo tree grow in one week or in 5 years and 1 week? The answer is obvious because if the person planting the Chinese bamboo had stopped caring for it, watering it, and fertilizing it during the time it did not show up, the wonderful bamboo tree would have died in the ground.

But if you see someone who grows a tree and has nothing to show for it by the end of the fourth year, and still takes care of the bare ground - watering and caring for it - you will either make fun of the person or call him crazy! The reason is that you act from the point of view of your mind - you judge things based on your way of thinking and your beliefs.

Being successful in life is a lot like growing a Chinese bamboo tree. You have nothing to show for many years, and people around you start making fun of you. They call you a fool, idiot, and urge you to give up, and I say keep your faith in what you grow because they do not see what you see... your bamboo tree is spreading its roots to support the imminent tremendous growth that is bound to come. Sooner or later you will see the result, but you must believe in your bamboo tree.

What other people think of you is not your business, it is their business. It has nothing to do with your business. Focus on your own growth and success. One day you will reap the results.

5 Fun Facts about Bamboos:

1.The fastest growing?plant on Earth:

Bamboo holds the world record for the fastest growing plant on Earth. Certain species of bamboo?can grow up to 91 cm per day, which is almost 4cm per hour!

2. Bamboo Survived the Hiroshima radiation:

Did you know that Bamboo can tolerate extreme conditions that most plants cannot? Bamboo was the only plant to survive the radiation of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. The incinerating heat destroyed all trees and other plant life, except for one bamboo grove. The grove has since been removed, but culms from the grove are preserved in a museum in Hiroshima.

3. Music was born?on Bamboo:

According to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the Emperor Huang Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a Phoenix bird.

4. One of the strongest?natural resources:

During World War II, the British Government covered the Taj Mahal with Bamboo scaffoldings to protect it from German Bombers.

5. Is Bamboo a tree or grass?

Bamboo is actually a type of grass but many of the larger woody bamboo species look more like a tree and are often called "bamboo trees".