Re: Les Brown Chinese Bamboo Tree Story

[MJ(윤미진)]

In the Far East, they have something

that's called the Chinese bamboo tree.

The Chinese bamboo tree takes five years to grow.

And when they go through a process of growing it,

they have to water and fertilize the ground where it is every day.

And it doesn't break through the ground until the fifth year.

OK. But once it breaks through the ground within five weeks,

it grows 90 feet tall.

Now the question is does it grow 90 feet tall

in five weeks or five years?

The answer is obvious : it grows 90 feet tall in five years

because at any time had that person stopped watering

and nurturing and fertilizing that dream,

that bamboo tree would have died in the ground.

And I can see people coming out talking to a guy out there

watering and fertilizing the ground

that's not showing anything

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"You've been out here a long time, man!"

And the conversation in the neighborhood is

"You're growing a Chinese bamboo tree, is that right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder can see there ain't nothing showing. (두 분 모두 앞이 보이지 않아요)

You know, that's how people are going to do to you.

"So how long you've been working on this?"

"How long have you been working on your dreams

and you have nothing to show."

"This is all you got to show?"

People are going to do that to you.

And some people, ladies and gentlemen,

they stop because they don't see instant results.

It doesn't happen quickly, they stop. Oh, no, no, no,

You've got to keep on watering your dream

and when it began to happen, they stopped laughing.

They say, "Look, whoa, look here,

it's look up, hey man, you know, huh"

"I know you could do it. Look, you've got a job here?"

See, during those hard times we didn't know

how you're going to make payroll.

during those times when you failed and things didn't work out

they were nowhere to be found

But you know what I discovered?

When you are working at your dream,

somebody said the harder the battle

the sweeter the victory.

Always sweet to you.

It's good to you.

Why?

See, when it's hard and there's a struggle,

see what you become in the process is more important than the dream.

That's far more important.

The kind of person you become,

the character that you build,

the courage that you develop,

the faith that you're manifesting,

oh, it's something that you get up in the morning

you look yourself in the mirror,

you're different kind of person,

you walk with a different kind of spirit.

And people know that you know what life is,

that you have embraced life.

You know it was hard

but you did it hard.