Batu Menangis
Once upon a time, there lived a mother and
her daughter in a small village,
in Borneo island. The daughter was so
beautiful, but she had a very bad behavior. She never helped her mother to
work. She just spent her time in front of the mirror to beautify herself and to
admire her beauty. While her mother had to work to fulfill their daily needs.
She was also a spoiled girl. She always asked everything to her mother. if her
mother didn’t fulfill her want, she would cry. This made her mother so sad, but
somehow she still loved her daughter. So she always tried to fulfill what her
daughter wanted.
One day, the girl forced her mother to buy a
new gown for her. At first, her mother refused her request. She told her
daughter that she didn’t have enough money. But her daughter threatened her
mother, then she fulfilled to but a new gown. Before going to the market
together, her daughter reminded her mom,”Let’s go shopping, but I don’t want to
walk beside you. You had to walk behind me, I felt embarrassed if people see
me”. Even though her mother felt really sad, she obeyed her daughter request,
she did not want her daughter feel embarrassed.
The daughter dressed beautifully while her
mother wore very simple dress. Even though they were a mother and a daughter,
they looked so different. Her mother looked like her servant. In the middle of
their way to market, a man greeted them,”Hi cute girl, is she your mother?”. he
asked. “How could you think that? Of course she is not my mother, she is my
servant”, the daughter replied. Her mother was so sad to hear that. She kept
silent though her heart was crying aloud. Along the street everyone passing
kept asking the girl about her mother. And the girl always told them that the
old woman behind her was her servant.
The mother had stayed patiently along the
street. And finally she could not bear it to hear her daughter’s answer. she
prayed to the God,”O Lord, punish my ungrateful daughter, please!”, she prayed.
Suddenly the girl’s legs turned to be a stone immediately after the mother
stopped praying. The change came slowly. Knowing her legs turned to be a stone,
the daughter screamed.”What’s happen to my legs?”. Then she realized that she
had hurt her mother’s feeling. She cried and begged for absolution to her mother.”Mommy,
Forgive me please, mom”. She begged. The daughter kept crying. But it was too
late. The whole body eventually became a stone. The mother actually felt so sad
to see her daughter. But she could not do anything to the God’s destiny. Even
though she had become a stone completely, people can still see her tears. That
is the reason why it was called Batu Menangis.
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