Frog Story

I heard this short a while ago. Its an old Korean folk tale. Its kinda sad, but it helps me in the hard times.

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Once a long time ago in the misty mountains, there was Frog and his mother, that lived near the river.

Frog was a bad son. He always disobeyed his mother. Everything that his mother told him to do, he did the opposite.

If his mom told him to stay out of the river, he would splash around merrily in the rapids. When he is told to go to the store to run an errand, he spends the money on candy and wanders off into the mountains.

He did this his whole life, and every time he disobeyed his mother, she was sad.

One day, Mother Frog realized that she was going to die very soon, and wanted to be buried in a proper place. She first thought to tell Frog to bury her in the mountains, where she can rest in peace. But knowing Frog, she knew he would disobey her.

So Mother Frog thought to herself, " Oh, since he always disobeys me, i will tell him to bury me at the river, and then when i die, he will bury me in the mountains"

She thought this over and thought it would be a good plan.

She beckoned Frog and told him that she was going to die soon and that she wanted to be buried at the river bank as a last request.

Days later she died. Frog cried and cried. He then realized that he had never obeyed his Mother in his whole life.

He then promised to himself, " I have never obeyed my Mother, and now she is dead. I will honor her, and obey her last request."

So instead of being buried in the mountains, as Mother Frog planned for, Frog buried her body in the river banks.

A day later, it started raining very hard. It rained so hard, it washed mud and dirt away from the banks. Frog saw his Mother's leg stick out of the mud, and then her head, and then her whole body.

Frog rushed over to try to save his Mother's body, but the body was swept away into the river, away from Frog.

Her body was lost forever.

Frog cried, and cried, and never stopped crying.



And so it is because of this, that when you go to a river when its raining, you hear Frog mournfully croaking for his Mother...................