Bamboo story of growing bamboo in 5 years and 30 days. Does anybody know where to find this?

When I sold Pampered Chef years ago, I heard a story told about the growing of bamboo. I can recount most of the story and could probably do it justice, but I'm looking to find the original manuscript of it. It's a modern folktale about how a woman every day for 5 years waters her piece of ground in which her bamboo was planted. Nothing ever happens. When the plant does finally appear, it grows 5 feet in 30 days. You could almost watch it grow. While her neighbors say that the plant grew in 30 days...she knows that it really took 5 years and 30 days.

Bamboo story of growing bamboo in 5 years and 30 days. Does anybody know where to find this?
One story similar to what you’re talking about goes like this (I understand it’s used a lot by inspirational speakers when referencing the need for persistence) :





You prepare the soil, pick the right spot, then plant the Chinese Bamboo Tree. You water it and wait. But you wait an entire year and nothing appears. No bud, no twig, nothing. So you keep watering and protecting the area and taking care of the future plant, and you wait some more. You wait another year and nothing still happens. Okay, you are a persistent person not prone to giving up, so you keep on watering. You water, check the soil, start talking to the ground, maybe even click your heels in some kind of growing dance you read about in the National Geographic. Another year passes and still no sign of growth.





It has been three years. Should you give up? Someone told you that it might take a while to really see the fruits of your efforts, so you keep on keeping on. More water, more talk, more dancing. The neighbors are wondering. And another year passes. No tree.





You now make a decision. If there is no tree on this date one year from now you will stop watering. Period. So you begin year number five with the same passion as day number one. You water, you wait. You keep watering and keep waiting. You water some more and then, could it be? Is it really? Yep, there it is, something sticking out of the dirt. You come back the next day and WOW it has really grown! In fact you come back each day for about six weeks and finally the Chinese Bamboo tree stops growing—but it is over 80 feet tall! Yes, 80 feet in six weeks! Well, not really. It is 80 feet in five years.





The point is simple. If you had given up for even the shortest period of time, there would be no tree. It took almost impossible persistence. The Chinese Bamboo tree is there for one reason and one reason only—because you never gave up on it.
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