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   A long long time ago on a certain high

mountaion where it have a village, the area is
full of green trees and plants, there lived a
family who was well-known and highly
respected by the people. They ruled the entire
village and whatever policy they made were
followed by the people. In fact, the villagers
readily obeyed the laws that were just and fair
which made them very powerful. This power
was enjoyed and passed on to all their
descendants.
      After a long period of time, there arose a
new heir to the throne whose style of
government was a complete reversal of his
predecessors. He was very cruel with a very
bad attitude. His punishment was harsh and
he showed no respect for anhungry

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       One day, there came an old man into the
palace. The old man came to beg and ask the
king to pity him and spare him any food to eat
cause he is really hungry.
         Rajah kawayan, (the name of the king),
got angry. He even shoved him away and
ordered him out of the palace.    
   But the old man shocked when Rajah
Kawayan shouted the old man! “You’re lazy,
shame on you for not wanting to work. All you
ever did was beg and beg,” at the same time
the King pushed away the pitiful old man
from out of his way.
The King shocked when the old man replied,
“I pray you would change your mannerisms
and learn to respect others, especially to the
old and weak who have no voice"

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 Upon hearing these words, the old man
disappearedn. Rajah Kawayan astonished
himself and became weak and sickly from
then on. Not long afterwards, the king life
ends. Nobody went to lament of his death
because he treated everyone badly when he
was still alive.
It did not take too long there grew a strange
plant on the site of his grave. The plant
became big. It grew tall, but one thing
noticeable about it was that it had a bending
posture. It was always bowing to the wind and
everything around it which on lookers say
reminded them of Rajah Kawayan whom they
say has finally learned his lesson of humility
and respect for others.
     The plant further grew into tree and was
named “KAWAYAN” (=bamboo, in English)

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after the cruel king’s name as we still refer it
today.

The lesson of the story was, be humble, learn

to share the blessings that we have and respect
others, because everything you have, you
cannot bring it to your tomb. As the saying
goes; “Do unto others, what you want others
do unto you”, if you want to gain some
respect, you should respect others, if you want
others give you, you must give them yours too.

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