MOTIVATION

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived on the lowlands and the other in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlands one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains. The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountains. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain. Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby  home. The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet. Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below. As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb. And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be? One man greeted her and asked, "We couldn't climb the mountain. How did you do this when we the strongest and most able men in the village couldn't do it?" She shrugged her shoulders and said,"It wasn't your baby."