The Story Of The Slow Bamboo Spirituality

Failure, Delay, Dead-end, Disappointment, andno light at the end of the Tunnel.

These are the standard difficulties that everyone on our planet will face countless times in their lives. Nothing can be more frustrating than seeing all your time, effort, and money go down the drain again and again. And when one fails constantly it’s very tempting for many people to give up thinking there is no use in trying anymore. But giving up hope is no way to live. Just because you haven't achieved what you wanted by a certain time doesn't mean that you will never achieve it in the future. And for that to happen one should never give up or stop trying. Yes, it’s not easy to continue when you have failed many times in the past. So how do you keep yourself motivated to continue? The answer is to read the story of the Bamboo and the Fern.

One day, a businessman who had incurred continuous losses decided it was enough. He went to the forest to have one last chat with God.

There in the silence of the forest he shouted, “God, can you give me one good reason why I shouldn’t quit?”

God answered and said, “Look around you. Do you see the fern and the bamboo?”

“Yes,” the businessman replied.