The Story of the One-Eyed Mother

My mom only had one eye.
I hated her... she was such an embarrassment...
She cooked for students & teachers...to support
the family. There was this one day during
elementary school 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?!?!"...eeeee said a
friend.
I wished 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 gonna 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.

Then I studied real hard.
I left my mother and went to Singapore to study.

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...

What?! Who's this?!
It was my mother...Still with her one eye.
I felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me.
Even my children 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 children!"

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 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 in Singapore.
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 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 Singapore 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... "

This message has a very deep meaning and is
passed to remind people of the goodness they
have enjoy was because of others
directly or indirectly.
Pause a moment and consider your life!

Be thankful of what you have today compared to
many millions who do not live lives as you do!

Do spend some time in prayer for your mum out
there!........

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