In the old Chinese age, there was a dumb old man who live in the North Mountain. In his place there’s also remain two mountains that not only block the view, but also block his way to the village and to other place. This condition, off course, makes a difficult situation for him because if he wants to work, he must find the turning road between those mountains. At last, he decided to move those two mountains, and then he started the family meeting in his house.
“Let’s move those mountains together”, he said to all of his family. “Let’s dig those stones and make those flattered with the soil.” Everybody agreed with his idea, except his wife. “Hey old man, you can’t move those mountains anyway. Look at you, you are old now and you don’t have much power again to do that. You even can not move a bunch of soil in front of your house, any way where will we put those stones?” Her wife said. “We can throw those mountain’s stones to the East China Sea” He replied.
So, after that, the old man starts to do his plan according to what he dreams. He has a support from all of son, grandson, even he has helped by his neighbor. They do with all the tools that they have from hammer until the simple farmer tools. They work together and day by day they start to dig the mountain’s stones everyday. All the stones, all the mud and all the soils were thrown to the East China Sea everyday. Even the neighbor kids who still 7 years old also helped their effort.
One day, when the dumb old man walks to his workplace, he met the wise old man at the edge of the river. The wise old man knew what the dumb old men done already about the two mountains, so he made a comment to his fellow “Be logic my friend. Now you are 90 years old. Even a single mud from the mountain was too heavy for you… and now you plan to move those mountains with your own hands? Just be rational my friend.”
But, the old dumb man replied his friend “You are so narrow minded. Look, don’t you see? If I die someday, this work will continue by all of my son and when they die, my grandson will continue this work and when my grandson die, their son will continue this work also. You see my friend, our family will getting grow and grow bigger with the bigger vision, but those mountain? They will not grow bigger. How come you say that we can not move those mountains?
The wise old man raise his eyebrow and he don’t know what to do with his friend.
Far in the high place, the gods heard their conversation. They really touched by the old dumb man words and at that time the gods move the mountains.
“If you have a vision, act persistently, always motivating yourselves and your follower, what seems impossible, become possible. The wise man should become a dumb if they don’t trust and they act nothing. But the dumb man who trust and act persistently will become the one who can change the world.”
