Originally Posted by
Miss_Sweet @ Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:29 am
(Please read it completely)
My Mom Only Had One Eye. My mom only had one eye.
I hated her... she was such an embarressment..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 embarressment.there was this one day during elementary
school..it was field day, and my mom came.
i was so embarressed. how could she do this to me? 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 dissappear
from this world so i said to my
mom, "mom.. why dont you have the other
eye?! if you're only gonna make me
a laughingstock, why dont 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 hadnt punishedme, but i didnt 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 wasafraid that she might wake me. i took a look at her, 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. cause i hated &! nbsp;my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty..then i studied real hard. i left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, andgot 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 doesnt remind me of my mom.this happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when.. what?!who's this?!
...it was my mother...
..still with her one eye.
it felt as if the whole sky was fallingapart on me.my little girl ran away,scared of my mom's eye.and i asked her, "who are you?!""i dont know you!!!" as if trying to makethat 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 havegotten the wrong address," and shedissappeared out of sight. thank goodness... she doesnt recognize me.. i was quite relieved.
i told myself that i wasnt 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. so, lying to
my wife that i was going on a business trip,i went.after the reunion, i
went down to the old shack, that i used tocall 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. my son...
i think my life has been long enough now.. and... i wont 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... andi'm sorry that i only have one eye, and i
was an embarressment for you. you see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye as a mom, i couldnt 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..' my son... oh, my son...
i dont want you to cry for me, because of my death.
please dont cry...
my son, i love you so much
Rememmber:
people will forget what you said ...
people will forget what you did = ...
but people will never forget how you made them feel