My
mom only had one eye. I hated her… she was such an embarrassment. My
mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and
such to sell… anything for the money we needed she was such an
embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school.
I
remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed.
How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The
next day at school… “Your mom only has one eye?!” and they taunted me.
I
wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my
mom, “Mom, why don’t you have the other eye?! You’re only going to make
me a laughingstock. Why don’t you just die?” My mom did not respond. I
guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think
that I had said what I’d wanted to say all this time. Maybe it was
because my mom hadn’t punished me, but I didn’t think that I had hurt
her feelings very badly.
That night… I
woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was
crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I
took a look at her, and then turned away. Because of the thing I had
said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of
my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye.
So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, because I
hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.
Then
I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied,
and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had.
Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too.
Now I’m living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it’s a
place that doesn’t remind me of my mom.
This
happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when someone unexpected came
to see me “What?! Who’s this?!” It was my mother… Still with her one
eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl
ran away, scared of my mom’s eye.
And
I asked her, “Who are you? I don’t know you!!” as if I tried to make
that real. I screamed at her “How dare you come to my house and scare my
daughter! Get out of here now!!” And to this, my mother quietly
answered, “oh, I’m so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,” and
she disappeared. Thank goodness… she doesn’t recognize me. I was quite
relieved. I told myself that I wasn’t going to care, or think about this
for the rest of my life.
Then a wave
of relief came upon me… one day, a letter regarding a school reunion
came to my house. I lied to my wife saying that I was going on a
business trip. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I
used to call a house…just out of curiosity there, I found my mother
fallen on the cold ground. But I did not shed a single tear. She had a
piece of paper in her hand…. it was a letter to me.
She wrote:
My son,
I
think my life has been long enough now. And… I won’t visit Seoul
anymore… but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit
me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard
you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school….
For you… I’m sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment
for you.You see, when you were very little, you got into an
accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you
having to grow up with only one eye… so I gave you mine… I was so proud
of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with
that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. The couple
times that you were angry with me. I thought to myself, ‘it’s because he
loves me.’ I miss the times when you were still young around me.
I miss you so much. I love you. You mean the world to me.
My
World Shattered. I hated the person who only lived for me . I cried
for My Mother, I didn’t know of any way that will make up for my worst
deeds…
Moral: Never Ever
hate anyone for their disabilities. Never disrespect your parents,
don’t ignore and under estimate their sacrifices. They give us life,
they raise us better than they had been, they give and keep trying to
give better than they ever had. They never wish unwell for their kids
even in their wildest dreams. They always try showing right path and
being motivator. Parents give up all for kids, forgive all mistakes
made by kids. There is no way to repay what they done for kids, all we
can do is try giving what they need and it is just time, love and
respect.
So friends, now a days what happens is children they may be either kids or teenagers..no one is respecting their parents.They never expect anything from us and give us everything.Please dont loose your precious time in taking care of them,because they are the reason for what we are today...!
The
first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few
weeks as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered
daily, gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his
temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came
when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it
and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day
that he was able to hold his temper.
