For the extra reading diary this week, I chose the KhasiFolktales unit. Overall, I didn’t enjoy
this unit as much as some of the others but there was one story that I really
liked because I thought it had a good message and was fun to read. The Goddesses Ka Ngot and Ka la lam was a fun
story to read about two daughters who climbed to the top of a mountain and
decided to race each other to see who could reach the plains first. In most sisterly competitions, one tends to
be a little more competitive than the other, just like in this story where Ka
lam was fearless and adventurous and Ka Ngot a little more timid. As they transformed themselves into two
rivers, Ka lam took the shortest cut she could find and found that the path she
chose was more difficult than she thought.
Once she made her way down and jumped through all the hoops the path had
to offer, she saw her sister in the plains and knew she was beat.
I can relate to this type of story because I think everyone
has experienced at least once before thinking that if you take a shorter path
or try to take a shortcut, sometimes that shortcut isn't what you think it is
and it actually slows you down or prevents you from going that direction. It’s a lesson that if you take your time and
go the right way and try not to cheat or get ahead by taking a quicker way,
that you can finish on top and stand proud knowing that you went about it the
moral way.
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| Folktales of the Khasi, River |
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