be filial to ur parents, ur lao peh lao bu. coz becoz of them u r in this world.
>> ONE EYE MOM
>>
>> 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?! If
>> 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
>> 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
