My mom only had one eye and 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 felt so
embarrassed. "How could she do this to me?" I think. I threw her a hateful
look and ran out.


The next day at school, a friend said "Your mom only has one eye?!?!
Eeeee..."



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 didn'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. I
saw my mom was crying, so quietly as if she was afraid that she might wake
me up. I took a look at her and 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 momr who was crying out of her one eye. So I
told myself that I would grow up and become successful.

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


Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own and had kids too. Now I'm
living happily as a successful man. I like this place as it doesn't remind
me of my mom.



This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when...


What?! Who's this?!



It was my mom still with her one eye. I felt as if the whole sky was
falling apart on me. Even my children ran away, cause they were scared of
my mom's eye. 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 mom quietly answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten
the wrong address." and she disappeared out of sight.



Thank godness! I was quite relieved that she doesn't recognize me. 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 ingapore.
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. I found my mom 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
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.



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 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."