MY MOTHER-(vincent hasegawa)

My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a aircraft market. She collected aircraft and such to sell... anything for the money we needed, she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school, I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. 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 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 laughingstock. Why don't 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 hadn't punished me, but I didn't 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, and 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, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.



Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to phil. and studied, and got accepted in the PATTS College of Aeronautics with all the confidence I had.
haist! this is my LIFE im so bad for my mom. :(