8 Lies of a Mother

This story begins when a baby was born as a boy in a poor family. Even lack for food, when eating, mom always gave her rice portion to her boy. While she moved the rice to his bowl, his mother said:

“Eat child, Mom is not hungry” ----- MOM’S FIRST LIE

When the boy grew up, his mother tried to spare her time to go fishing in a pond near home, his mother hoped to catch a fish, so that she could give her boy nutritious food for his growth. After fishing, she cooked a fresh fish soup that is tasty. While the boy eating the soup, his mother sat beside him and eat the remaining fish meat that is still stick on the bone which was the rest of bone fish that the boy ate. He looked at his mom, his heart was touched, then use his chopstick and gave it to his mother. But his mother quickly reject it and said:

“Eat child, Mom doesn’t like to eat fish” ----- MOM’S SECOND LIES

Now the boy has entered junior high school, in order to finance his brother school fee, mom went to the cooperative to take some box of matches to stick. It gave some money to cover their needs of live. When winter came, he woke up from his bed, seeing his mother leaning on a small candle and continuing sticking the box matches. He said: “Go to sleep mom, it is already late, tomorrow morning you still have to work.”
His mother smiled and said:

“Go to bed child, Mom is not tired” ----- MOM’S THIRD LIES

While examination came, mom took leave to accompany her child testing.
Afternoon came, the sun is so bright, and his mother was still waiting on a blazing sun for couple of hours. When the bell rang, exam time was finish. Mom hurry came to me and poured a tea that already made on a cold bottle for me. The tea was so thick but cannot compare to the love that is thicker. Seeing mom was sweating heavily, the boy hurry gave his glass to his mother and asked her to drink. His mother said:

“Drink it child, Mom is not thirsty!” ----- MOM’S FOURTH LIES

After his father died because of illness, his mother has to be a father and a mother. She still worked as usual, she has to cover up her own live. Their lives became harder and harder. There is no day without suffering. Seeing their condition became worse, there was a kind-hearted uncle that lived near their house and helped the boy’s mother whether big problem or small problem. Their neighbor that lived next to the house saw their lives was so poor, often advice the boy’s mother to marry again. But the mother was so stubborn and didn’t take their advice, she said:

”I don’t need love” ----- MOM’S FIFTH LIES

When the boy and his brother all work, their mother already old and retired. But the mother didn’t want to, she was willing to go to market every morning to sell some vegetables to cover for their lives. The boy’s brother worked outside town and often sent some money to cover his mom’s needs, but she didn’t want to take it, She sent the money back. She said:

”Mom still has some money” ----- MOM’S SIXTH LIES

When the boy graduated from Bachelor Degree, he contiuned to take Master Degree and then achieved Master Degree in in a renowned university in the United States. Owing to a scholarship at a company. Finally, I worked in the company. The salary was quite high; he intended to take his mom to enjoy live in America. But mom was too kind-hearted, she didn’t want to burden her son, she then told her son:

“Mom is not accustomed to” ----- MOM’S SEVENTH LIES

After entering old age, her mother exposed to cavity cancer, has to be hospitalized, the boy who was far away across Atlantic Ocean immediately came home to visit his beloved mother. The boy saw her mother lying weak on the bed after operation. His mother looked old, she looked at her son with yearn. Even though her smile was bright but stiff because of the pain, it looked how the disease already struck his mom’s body until she looked weak and thin. He then looked at his mom with tears. His heart was ache, very hurt to see his mom with this condition. But mom still
said:

“Don’t cry my child, Mom is not sick” ----- MOM’S EIGHT LIES

After saying the eight lies, his beloved mother closed her eyes for the last time.

From above story, we believed that fellowers will all be touched and wanted to say: ”Thanks Mom”
Try to reflect, how long we haven’t called our parents?
How long we haven’t spend our time talking with our parents?
In the middle of our tight schedule, we always have thousands of reason to leave our parents lonely. We forgot there are father and mother at home.
If we compare it with our boyfriend or girlfriend, we will care more with him/her. As the matter of fact, we always worry of his/her safety, worry that he/she already eaten or not, worry that he/she will be happy with us.

But, have we ever worried about our parents?
Worried that our parents already eaten or not?
Worried that our parents already happy or not?
Is it true?
If yes, try to reflect again...
Mean while we still have time to pay back our parents, do the best.
Never reveal ”REGRET” in the future.