A very nice reflection to share..

[Skylah]

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.. There was this one day during elementary school.. 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 laughing stock, 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..

I studied real hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had.

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..

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 out of sight.. 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. 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, which 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.

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.. And 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 mom, 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..'

my son... oh, my son...
I don’t want you to cry for me,
Because of my death.. Please don’t cry..
My son, I love you so much
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It brought tears to my eyes & touched my heart.. I don’t understand how ones can be so cruel like that.. I have to admit sometimes parents can be pain in the a$$ but I can never treat em like that.. without em, we wont be in this world..

[BWS-1]

That's disturbing ... yet indeed a nice reflexion to share. I can't believe hatred can fuel up ones will that much, is that even human to be able to act like this against his own mother? Some could say he'd be under some curse or charm or that he's got the devil in him ... and the mother, o mother, is that even human to be able to suffer so much, be the martyr of your very own son and still love him for who he is and what he did, some could say she has the strenght of a god and the heart of an angel. This story marks me because not only am I in disbelief in front of someone like that guy acting like that towards his mother, but I can't believe he's fild with so much hatred for such a lame, superficial reason: o she misses an eye ... wow, it's not like his mother beats him up, abuses of him or anything, no she just misses an eye, an eye SHE gave HIM ... ack I'm going to sleep now. And try to keep in mind the love of the other, rather then the hatred of the son, cause otherwise I'll build up angst, and that's not good.

[Girkon]

I think part of that can only be understood on a certain level the second you see your children being born, and realising that you love them unconditionally without second thought.

[Doot]

That's what parents should do, love unconditionally, even when their children don't deserve it. Frankly, the man writing the story is horrible. For him to carry on his unmerited and shallow disgrace and disrespect for his mother all through his life for a such a disgusting reason makes his telling of the story just wish he'd been the one not blessed with sight ever after.

I don't know how "warm fuzzy" it makes me feel to think that this would or has really happened.

[Ultrawolf]

[Suna-chan]

That story makes me feel so terrible....how could he even do that? Are there really people out there who behave in such a way? I suppose yes. It makes me think though - and though I think I appreciate my parents..I'll make sure to extra-appreciate them