Determination

An ancient Chinese proverb says, which means "A Stupid old man moved amountain". The proverb conveys a very strong morality message. As the story told, once there lived an old man together with his family in such a remote place between two big mountains. Whenever they had to go somewhere they had to take a round trip throught the mountain. It consumed of time and effort to do a single trip

One day, the old man with his own plain thought expressed his simple determination. He invited all his relatives to gather around, gather up their spirit and cooperatively hand in hand worked to move the mountain. On the day agreed, everyone gathered around and started digging out the soil around the valleys. One of the young man who heard about this came to the spot and asked the old man, "Grandpa, you and the rest of your family are very busy digging and doing all this, day in day out, what is that actually you are trying to achieve?" The old man answered with such a determination, "We are going to move the mountain, son." "Moving the mountain? That's ridiculous, you are already very old, on the way before you can achieve anything you would have died. You are wasting your time and energy."

The old man answered loudly, "I am old as I am. When I die, there will be my sons and grandsons and my generations who will continue my job... As long as we have determination, willing to work hard, full of certainly and consistency, I am sure one day we will be able to move out the mountain. And the path to go to the other towns then will be very much easier."

Witnessing such a strong determination, all the people around were shaken up and thus took turns hand in hand, with all limited tools available, they started to help this old man in anyway they could.

Shortly, the old man's determinations along with hand in hand spirit of the people in the village, the hearts of all Gods dwelling in Heaven were touched. Then, all these Gods were busy having discussion regarding this particular case, and tried to determine whether they should either help or just ignore the old man's wish. Finally, they all concluded that due to the noble cause that the old man showed, they all agreed to help him to move out the mountain. And so it was done. The old man and the rest of his family were rejoicing. The story was then known as The Legend of "The Old Man Who Moved a Mountain." The legend above teaches all of us, that personal development, societal development and nation development and nation development are very much influenced by the power of determination. Determination is the source of motivation that pushes people toward their goals. Determination is an endowment as well as a form of investment towards progress and prosperity. Those who have a very strong determination, and then there is no such a thing as impossible. Nothing is impossible under the sun. Gain the determination and create whatever impossible to be possible.