Chinese bamboo spends its first four years doing almost nothing you can see.
No stalk. No height. Just a nearly invisible shoot in the dirt, while underneath, a root system spreads wider and deeper every single day. Then, in the fifth year, it shoots up over 80 feet in about six weeks. It didn't grow fast. It grew ready.
Nobody claps for the four years underground. There's no highlight for the version of you that was quietly building a foundation nobody could see. But that's the part that made the rise possible.
years of roots, then rise.
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