Kyi Aye - How to overcome

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Little mermaid

In the ancient times, in the vast sea where the sailors lived, the sea was as blue as a beautiful cornflower. It was as clear as glass. It was so deep that hundreds of thousands of towers could only be built one above the other to reach the surface of the sea. And there was nothing under the sea. Don't think that it would be empty sand. How could it be empty sand? Amazingly beautiful trees and flowers grew there. The branches of the trees were so light that the waves moved gently and moved with a lively movement. Between the leaves and the leaves, the big and small fish were beautiful, and between the branches of the leaves and the branches, the birds flew and glided.

The palace of the King of the Sea is located in the deepest part of the sea. The walls of the palace are made of coral, and the long, pointed windows are made of amber. The roof of the palace is made of oysters and the wind blows. When the waves hit it, the oyster shells keep opening and closing, and the pearls inside are shining with gold and silver. Of these, the most valuable is the large emerald on the king's head.

The king of the sea was a widower, so Ma Ao was able to marry. Ma Ao was of royal blood, so she was proud and worthy. No matter how high the rank of other sea people was, they were only allowed to wear six shells on their tails, but she was allowed to wear twelve. But she had a short-sighted mind. She was always ready to say no. Especially her love for her six grandchildren was great. The six sea princesses were also beautiful children, and the youngest was called Hla Kaung Kyu. Her skin was as soft as a rose petal, and her eyes were as deep as the blue of the sea. But because she was a sea person, she could not grow legs. Like a fish, she lived with a thin head and a thick tail.

The children used to play all day in the palace's spacious halls. Beautiful flowers bloomed on the walls around them. When the amber windows were opened, the fish would swim into the rooms like swallows entering the world by mistake. The fish were braver than the swallows, Kyaw. The princesses would come running to the palace and feed them with their hands. They would even be petted and calmed down.

In the garden in front of the palace, some trees were in full bloom, some were as bright as a forest fire, and some were as dark as night. The fruits were as yellow as gold, and the flowers were as bright as the sun. The sand that covered the garden was so blue that the water above was as blue as the water below, and it was hard to believe that it was underwater. It seemed as if it were in the sky. When the water was still, the sun was like a purple flower, and the light from the flower's petals was shining down on the world.

In the garden, a princess was given a plot of land. She could plant whatever she wanted. One of them drew a picture of a whale and planted it. Another chose a picture of a mermaid. The youngest chose a picture of the sun, and she planted it with red flowers that she imagined would be the color of the sun. It was very strange. She was very peaceful and lived by her imagination. When she found strange things after a shipwreck, the other sisters did not stop pretending to have them. She asked for a human figure and planted it in her plot. Then she planted a red stone tree next to the white stone. The stone tree grew quickly and reached the ground with its branches and when it reached the ground, it seemed to be embracing the roots, and the purple-brown shadows of the branches began to play.

The princess couldn't stop listening to the stories of humans above the water. They built ships and sailed the sea, built cities, and lived in them. She asked the old woman to tell her about them. She began to like the flowers in the human world very much. The sea flowers had no scent and were very fragrant. And the forests were green. The fish flew among the colorful and bright branches. They sang loudly and beautifully. In fact, the old woman meant birds. She said fish instead of birds because she was afraid that the child would not understand because she had never seen birds.

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"My grandson will be allowed to go to the surface of the sea when he turns fifteen. Then he can sit on the rocks under the moonlight and watch the ships sail, the cities build, and the people live there," said the grandmother.

A year later, the eldest daughter turned fifteen, which was a joy. But the princesses grew older and younger by one year, so the eldest would have to wait five years. But the eldest daughter promised that when she returned from the sea on the day she turned fifteen, she would tell her everything she had seen. They could not bear to listen to their grandmother.

No one is as excited as my little brother. He would open the window at night and look up at the fish swimming in the clear blue sea. All he could see was the sun and the moon. Because they were in the water, the sun and the moon were pale and seemed larger than on land. If a shadow passed between the sun and the moon, it was a whale. A ship full of people, etc., they could guess. How could people imagine that in the depths below them, a little mermaid was stretching out her two white hands towards the ship's hull, waiting in anticipation?

When the eldest daughter, the fifteenth, returned from the water, she had many stories to tell. Sitting on the sand in the moonlight, looking at the port city, the lights and stars, and listening to the music, was the most enjoyable. I heard the sound of people riding the train. I saw the tall towers of the church. I heard the bells ring. I couldn't go there, so I was even more excited, Kyaw.

My older sister was still holding her head. When I looked up at the blue water as night fell, I was so distracted by the noisy city that I could even hear the church bells ringing.

A year later, the second daughter was allowed to swim again. When she reached the water, the sun was still setting - she was so impressed that she declared that this was the most beautiful place on the water.

“The sky is golden and the clouds are so beautiful that I can’t even describe it,” he said.

“Now it turns red, now it turns purple, and flies over the head. At sunset, swans fly faster over the water. I looked, but the sun had already disappeared, and the rose-colored clouds on the water had faded. I couldn’t see anything.”

The third princess, being the bravest, followed the river up a bend. The riverbank was covered with vineyards and forests, and in between, she saw small hills covered with green, with houses and castles rising up. She could hear the birds singing. The sun was so hot that she had to go back into the water to cool down. At one of the piers, she saw a group of children jumping and swimming in the water. She wanted to go in and play with them, but the children were scared and ran away. A black child was also scared because he was her brother, so she herself got scared and ran back into the sea. But she said that she could not forget the green forests, the wild forests, the children swimming without fins and without fear.

The fourth princess was not very brave. She thought that the sea was not yet over, and when she got home, she would be more beautiful. She saw ships sailing in the distance, like seagulls. She also saw large sharks rolling around. She also saw huge whales blowing water from their noses.

The fifth princess's turn came, and the sea was green because it was winter. Ice floes as big as houses were floating on the surface of the water. She thought it looked like a pearl, so she sat on one of the pearls and waved her long hair in the wind. The ships sailed in panic, trying to escape the ice floes. In the evening, the sky was thick with clouds, and lightning flashed, and the clouds were also falling, so the ships lowered their sails and were helpless. She sat on the ice floes tied to the raft, not noticing the blue lightning.