You don’t have to be a farmer to know that a good harvest requires good seed, good fertilizer and irrigation. It is also obvious that he who cultivates the land does not stop impatiently in front of the seed sown, and shouts with all his might: Grow, damn it!
There is something very curious that happens with bamboo and that transforms it into not suitable for impatient: you sow the seed, you fertilize it, and you take care to water it constantly.
Nothing appreciable happens during the first few months. In reality nothing happens with the seed during the first seven years, to such an extent that an inexperienced grower would be convinced of having 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 it was going to have after seven years.
However, in everyday life, many people try to find quick solutions, hasty triumphs, without understanding that success is simply the result of internal growth and that it takes time.
