My Mother !!!!
This story begins when I was a child. I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough
to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice.
While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say 'Eat this rice,
son! I'm not hungry.' This was my mother's first lie.
As I grew, mother gave up her spare time to cultivate vegetables on a small
patch of land near our home.. She hoped that she could give me some nutritious
food for my growth. She would make delicious soups from the best of the
seasonal crops she was able to grow.
While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat what was still
left in the bowl. My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave her half my
share but she immediately refused it and said, 'Please eat this soup, son! I
don't really like soup so much.' This was my mother's second lie.
Then, in order to fund my education, mother went to a match factory to bring
home some used matchboxes, which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped
her get some money to cover our needs. One wintry night, I awoke to find mother
filling the matchboxes by candlelight. So I said, 'Mother, go to sleep; it's
late, you can continue working tomorrow morning.' Mother smiled and said, 'Go
to sleep, son! I'm not tired.' This was my mother's third lie.
When I had to sit for my final examination, mother accompanied me. After dawn,
mother waited for me for hours in the heat of the Sun. When the bell rang, I
ran to meet her… Mother embraced me and poured me a glass of tea that she had
prepared in a thermos. The tea was not as strong as my mother's love. Seeing
mother covered with perspiration, I at once gave her my glass and asked her to
drink too. Mother said 'Drink, son! I'm not thirsty!' This was my mother's
fourth lie.
After my father's death, mother had to play the role of a single parent. She
held on to her former job and somehow had to make ends meet alone. Our family's
status was precarious and many a time we suffered from starvation. Seeing our
family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle, who lived near my house, offered
to help us solve our problems, big and small. Our other neighbors saw that we
were poverty stricken, so they often advised my mother to marry again. But
mother refused to remarry saying, 'I don't need love.' This was my mother's
fifth lie.
After I had finished my studies and found a job, it was time for my old mother
to retire, but she carried on going to the market every morning just to sell a
few vegetables. I kept sending her money, but she was steadfast and even sent
the amount back to me! She said, 'I have enough money.' That was my mother's
sixth lie.
I continued my part-time studies for my master's degree. Funded by the American
Corporation for which I worked, I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in
my salary, I decided to bring mother to enjoy life in America. But mother
didn't want to bother her son; she said to me: ‘I don’t want a comfortable
life.' That was my mother's seventh lie.
In her dotage, Mother was attacked by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now,
living far across the ocean, I went home to visit mother who was bedridden
after an operation. Mother tried to smile, but I was heartbroken because she
was so thin and feeble. But mother said, 'Don't cry, son! I'm not in any
pain.' That was my mother's eighth lie!
Telling me this, her eighth lie, she died. Yes, my mother was an angel!
It is for this reason that they define Mother this way –
M - O - T - H - E - R
'M' is for the Million things she gave me;
'O' means she became Old as she gave her life for me;
'T' is for the Tears she shed to save me;
'H' is for her Heart of gold;
'E' is for her Eyes with love-light shining in them;
‘R' means the Righteous and exemplary life she lead.
Put them all together, they spell 'MOTHER' - a word that means the world to me.
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