Mother’s Sacrifice

Name: Intan Yunia

School : SMP IT Ruhul Jadid Tigaraksa-Tangerang

Story Telling
 Mother’s Sacrifice

I have a little family, there are only me and my mom. My mom ran in a small shop in a flea
market. She collected little flowers and such to sell but anything she had given in her life for me,
I was always so embarrassed. So you know what? Because my mom only had an eye, I hated
her…she was very embarrassing. …

I remember that it was field day (in 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 to home without saying anything
and caring anything with me. The next day when I went to school and passed every hallway of
the school, they were looking at me cynically and I was alone there. Sure enough, there was one
who casually said… "Your mom only has an 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 burlesque. Why don't you just
die?" My mom did not respond. It felt good to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say for all
these year's.

That night… I woke up and went to the kitchen to take a glass of water. My mom was crying
there, so quietly, maybe afraid that she might wake me up. I looked at her and then walked away
although there was something pinching in the corner of my heart. But I still hated my mom and
our desperate poverty. So I told myself that I have to grew up and become successful.

I studied hard and I left my mother to came to Seoul and studied there because I accepted
scholarship at Seoul. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too.
Now I'm living happily as a successful woman. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't
remind me of my mom.

This happiness was getting bigger and bigger but someone unexpected came to see me "What?!
Who's this?!" It was my mother… still with her an eye. While My little girl ran away scared of
my mom's eye, I asked her, "Who are you? I don't know you!!" as tried to make that real. I
screamed at her "How dare you came to my house and scare my daughter! Get out of here
now!!" in here, my mother quietly answered, "oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong
address," and she disappeared. 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.
 Mother’s Sacrifice

Then a wave of relief came upon me and my mother has passed away… one day, a letter
regarding a school reunion came to my house. I lied to my husband saying that I was going on a
business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old shack that I used to call a house…just out of
curiosity there. I did not shed a single tear first. When I went to mother's room, there was a letter
on her table and I realized that it was a letter to me.

She wrote:

My daughter,

I think my life has been long enough now and… I won't visit Seoul anymore… but would it be
too much to ask you to come to visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad
to know you had many appreciations at school until you have got a scholarship. But I decided
not to go to 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 daughter 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. When you were angry with me. I thought to myself,
‘it's because she loves me.' I miss the times when you were still young around me.

I miss you so much. I love you. You are my everything.

My World Shattered then I cried with regret… forgive me, mom, I miss you and thank you for
everything. You mean The world to me.

Moral Value: Always care to our parents because they give us a life, there is no way to repay
what they have done for their kids, all we can do is try giving what they need for example time,
love and respect.