music: Andy Lau - 再说一次 我爱你

Here's another article tat can make me cry..
duno if it's a real story..
but i feel like slappin him when he shouted at his mum..

The Story of 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 one occasion 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 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. 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 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 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 enjoyed were 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