Mother.....:Inspirational Stories and real life Incidences.

Mother.....

by mili_genie on December 06, 2005, 05:22:14 AM

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Message
i just got in a mail....

Please say a small prayer for All Mothers and Fathers who are
not
with us.

And if you are lucky and your parents are with you, please love them
every
Moment of Your Life.

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 he trying 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 good ness... 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!!!

Then I cried for the person who lived for me. My MOTHER

Just pause for a moment and pray for our parents so that God gives them all the happiness that they rightfully deserve.......!!!!!

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