My Mummy only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an embarressment. My Mummy 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 primary school,
it was sports day, and my Mum came.
I was so embarressed. How could she do this to me?
I threw her a hateful look and ran out.

The next day at school.............
"Your Mummy has only one eye?!" and they taunted me.
I wished that my Mummy would just dissappear from this world so I said to my Mummy, "Mummy, why dont you have the other eye?!
If you're only gonna make me a laughing stock, why don't you just die?!"
My Mummy 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 Mummy had'nt punished me, 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 Mummy was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid 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 Mummy who was crying out of her one eye.
So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful. Cause I hated my one-eyed Mummy and our desperate poverty..

Then I studied real hard. I left my Mummy 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 doesnt remind me of my Mummy.

This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when..

What?!
Who's this?!
...it was my Mummy.....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 Mummy's eye.
and I asked her, "Who are you?!"
"I dont 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 Mummy quietly answered,
"oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,"
and she dissappeared 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 to call a house...just out of curiosity

There, I found my Mummy 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 embarressment for you.

You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. as a Mother, I could'nt 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 of times that you were angry with me,.. I thought to myself, 'it's because he loves me..'

My son... Oh, My son...

WOW, I would just shoot myself if that was me.

This post has been edited by doc182: Jul 24 2005, 01:45 PM