Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Love vs Time

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived:
Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge,and all of the others, including Love.

One day it was announced to thefeelings that the island would sink, so they all prepared their boats and left.
Love was the only one who stayed.
Love wanted to stay with the island until it started sinking.

When Love was almost sinking, he decided to ask for help.

Richness came by Love in a beautiful boat.
Love said,"Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered,"No, I can't... There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by,
"Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you Love. You are all wet and you may damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so again,
Love asked for help,"Sadness, let me go with you."
"Oh...Love, I am so sad that I prefer to go alone!"

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy
that she did not listen when Love called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice,"Come Love, I will take you."
It was an elder. Love became so happy that he even forgot to ask the elder her name.

When they arrived on dry land,the elder went on her own way

Love asked Knowledge, another elder, the name of the elder who had helped him.
"It was Time," answered Knowledge."
Time? But why did Time help me?" asked Love.

"Because only Time is capable ofunderstanding how great Love is,"answered Knowledge.

"Take the time to know what Real Love is"

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Monday, July 04, 2005

The Mom With One Eye

My mom only had one eye.
i hated her... she was such an
embarressment..
my mom ran a small shop at a flea market.
she collected little weeds and such to sell...
anything for the money we needed
she was such an embarressment.
there was this one day during elementary
school..
it was field day, and my mom came.
i was so embarressed. 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 dissappear
from
this world
so i said to my mom,
"mom.. why dont you have the other eye?!
if you're only gonna make me a
laughingstock,
why dont 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 hadnt
punished
me,
but i didnt 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, 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.
cause i hated my one-eyed mom and our
desperate poverty..

then i studied real 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 doesnt
remind me of my mom.

this happiness was getting bigger and bigger,
when..

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 dont know you!!!" as if 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 dissappeared out of sight.


thank good ness... she doesnt recognize me..
i was quite relieved.

i told myself that i wasnt 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. so, 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...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.

my son...
i think my life has been long enough now..

and... i wont 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...
and i'm sorry that i only have one eye, and i
was
an embarressment for you.

you see, when you were very little, you got into
an
accident, and lost your eye. as a mom, i
couldnt
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..'

my son... oh, my son...

i really love you.please take care.

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