I've come to realize long time ago that life is never a bed of roses and I continue to believe so. Sometimes, hard as you might try things don't happen the way you want it to be, rather, the tide is against you and the harder you peddle the stronger the undercurrent... very disheartening indeed. From each of life's lesson I just hope to emerge as a stronger and hopefully wiser person after the chapter is closed. And as the poem suggests, do not be discouraged...
You take a little seed, plant it, water it, and fertilise it for a whole year, and nothing happens
The second year you water it and fertilise it, and nothing happens
The third year you water it and fertilise it, and nothing happens. How discouraging this becomes!
The fourth year you water it and fertilise it, and nothing happens. This is very frustating
The fifth year you continue to water and fertilise the seed and then...take note. Sometime during the fifth year, the Chinese bamboo tree spouts and grows NINETY FEET IN SIX WEEK! Life is much akin to the growing process of the Chinese bamboo tree. It is often discouraging
We seemingly do things right, and nothing happens
But for those who do things right and are not discouraged and are persistent, things will happen
Finally we begin to receive the rewards
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