A very touching story..

When I skim through the buletin board on friendster, I saw this story and wanna share with you all.
The story begins:

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 where my mom came to
say hello
to me.



I was so embarrassed.



How could she do this to me?

I ignored her, threw her a hateful
look and ran out.

The next day at school one of my
classmates
said, 'EEEE, your mom only has one
eye!'



I wanted to bury myself.

I also wanted my mom to just
disappear. I confronted her that day
and said, '
If you're only goanna make me a
laughing stock, why don't you just
die?'



My mom did not respond...

I didn't even stop to think for a
second about what I had said,
because ! I was
full of anger. I was oblivious to her
feelings.



I wanted out of that house, and have
nothing to do with her.

So I studied real hard, got a chance
to go abroad to study.

Then, I got married. I bought a house
of my own. I had kids of my own. I was
happy with my life, my kids and the
comforts, Then one day, my mother came
to
visit me. She hadn't seen me in years
and she didn't even meet her
grandchildren.



When she stood by the door, my
children laughed at her, and I yelled
at her for
coming over uninvited. 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. One day, a
letter
regarding a school reunion came to my
house.



So I lied to my wife that I was going
on a business trip. After the reunion,
I
went to the old shack just out of
curiosity.

My neighbors said that she died. I did
not shed a single
tear.

They handed me a letter that she had
wanted me to have.


'My dearest son,

I think of you all the time. I'm sorry
that I came to your house and
scared your children. I was so glad
when I heard you were coming for the
reunion. But I may not be able to even
get out of bed to see you. I'm sorry
that I was a constant embarrassment to
you when you were growing up.



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 one eye. So I
gave you mine. I was so proud of my son
who was seeing a whole new world for
me, in my place, with that eye.



With all my love to you,

Your mother.