Sow Growth

 If the seed is sown in faith and careful with perseverance, it will only be a matter of time to reap its fruits. (Thomas Carlyle)

Sometimes, we do not see results for a long time, but if we are persistent, we take actions every day to achieve what we want to achieve and we open ourselves to all possible possibilities, sooner or later a result will manifest itself, and when it happens, we will see all the fruits of our efforts together.

Japanese bamboo, zen tale

“You don’t have to be a farmer to know that a good harvest requires good seed, good fertilizer and constant watering. It is also obvious that those who cultivate the land do not stand impatiently in front of the sown seed and shout with all their might: “Grow up, damn you!” …

There is something very curious that happens with Japanese bamboo that makes it unsuitable for the impatient: You sow the seed, you fertilize it, and you take care of constantly watering it.

During the first months nothing appreciable happens. In reality, nothing happens with the seed for the first seven years, to such an extent that an inexperienced grower would be convinced that they had bought infertile seeds. However, during the seventh year, in a period of only six weeks the bamboo plant grows more than 30 meters!

It took only six weeks to grow?

No. The truth is that it took seven years and six weeks to develop.

During the first seven years of apparent inactivity, this bamboo was generating a complex root system that would allow it to sustain the growth that it was going to have after seven years.

However, in everyday life, many people try to find quick fixes, hasty triumphs without understanding that success is simply the result of inner growth and that it takes time. Perhaps due to the same impatience, many of those who aspire to results in the short term, suddenly give up just when they were about to conquer the goal. “

The conquest of our goals is achieved through persistent struggle with the waiting for the right time.

We will find ourselves in our day-to-day situations in which we will believe that nothing is happening, feeling frustrated because we demand quick solutions and you do not arrive. It is perhaps in these moments when it will be of great help to remember the maturation cycle of Japanese bamboo, and accept that as long as we continue to strive and adopt a persevering attitude, something will happen: our growth. We will be creating our inner roots, which will allow our goal to grow and come to light.

Success is within us, and it takes time to form. The triumph or the achievement of what we propose is a process that takes time and dedication, which requires learning new habits, forcing us to get rid of others, a process that finally requires changes and transformations, actions and great gifts of patience.

Mathama Ghandi affirmed: ” Our reward is in the effort and not in the result “

Just as bamboo requires perseverance, the same is true in life.

Time to time.

If you do not get what you expect, and you cultivate patience and effort day by day in your garden, perhaps you are just putting down roots and then growing strongly.