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07-06-08, 01:05 PM #1
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STORY - My One Eyed Mother
This story when I first read it, bought tears to my eyes...it still does everytime I read it..
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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 that 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?! 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 he 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
My world shattered!!!
Then I cried for the person who lived for me... My MOTHER
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Brothers and sisters, well even non- Muslims, everyone should look after and respect your mother, we will never be able to repay what our mothers have done for us, the fact that she carried you for 9 months in her tummy, did she complain? No she wanted you to be ready for the world, when you were a child screaming, did she give up on you? No. Look after your mothers.
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07-06-08, 01:23 PM #2
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Re: STORY - My One Eyed Mother
Originally Posted by zaki
This story when I first read it, bought tears to my eyes...it still does everytime I read it..
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Brothers and sisters, well even non- Muslims, everyone should look after and respect your mother, we will never be able to repay what our mothers have done for us, the fact that she carried you for 9 months in her tummy, did she complain? No she wanted you to be ready for the world, when you were a child screaming, did she give up on you? No. Look after your mothers.
wow...jazakallah...that was really touching!!!
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07-06-08, 01:24 PM #3
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subhanAllah akhi amin
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07-06-08, 02:24 PM #4
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08-06-08, 04:49 AM #5
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Tears on my lashes.
for sharing.
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08-06-08, 07:18 AM #6
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The objective of this text is to make us appreciate our mothers.
Regardless, the story remain untrue and a science fiction for we did not yet successful mastered eye transplant.
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08-06-08, 08:01 AM #7
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Re: STORY - My One Eyed Mother
the one who abused his Mother like that and went so far as saying that she aught to die, aught to be Punished, severely ...
08-06-08, 01:12 PM #8
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Re: STORY - My One Eyed Mother
woow
enshllh i am gunna share this with everyone..
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08-06-08, 04:47 PM #9
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I've read this before, it's so sad ;(
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08-06-08, 04:53 PM #10
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Re: STORY - My One Eyed Mother
I also think this isn't a true story but it's still worth sharing because I know of some besharam people who think like that. Spoilt brat. The mum should've given him a good slap as a kid to knock some sense into him
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08-06-08, 07:18 PM #11
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Assalamu alaikum,
i have read this story before aswell and its soooo sad.
May Allah Bless mothers
08-06-08, 07:23 PM #12
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I had read something similar to this a few years ago, made me quite sad...
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08-06-08, 07:27 PM #13
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Asalaam
Truely we should love and respect our parents as you would be denied heaven alltogether if you dont.
But such stories as the above are made up and play a emotional effect to seduce people into believing that its true. So such stories should not be distributed.
May (Allah) swt bless all mothers and fathers and make us the best of mothers and fathers 1 day too.
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09-06-08, 12:04 AM #14
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lost for words...
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09-06-08, 02:51 AM #15
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How many of you went and gave your mom a hug after this
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