发信人: jz_love6(真情男孩)
整理人: jz_love6(2001-09-21 19:56:10), 站内信件
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Some unclear impulse urged me to write about my mother. Perhaps it is the ups and downs of her years that have moved me.
I remember that one day was passed with mother’s crying loudly. From that moment, I lost my father. Mother began to experience her years of toiling and hardship to bring her little children up.
Mother used to talk about her marriage. She did not love my father at first. It was her father who made the decision. Her father took a shine on my father at first sight. Father was an ordinary soldier while mother was an excellent teacher. She was the most loved both in class and outside class. Her lectures were the best. Her handwriting was the best. Even her sewing was the best. So, mother felt father could not match her. Once in a while, mother would return father’s love letters after correcting the errors on it. She thought father would feel ashamed and back up. Yet, father finally successfully married mother. Later, they moved to the oilfield and mother became a housewife.
Good days did not last long. From that day on, mother began to live a thrifty life and she had to bear a heavy load of work to support the family. Some neighbors would come to help from time to time, but mother anxiously repaid their help by doing more for them.
When most families began to own a TV set, mother could not turn a blind eye to her children’s imploring and bought one. This white-and-black TV remained the only electric appliance of my home for a long time. It was when I received my first month’s salary that I realized that it must have been a difficult decision for mother to make for life was so hard at that time. Now the TV is still kept by mother. She wouldn’t throw it away for it reflected the life during that period. Perhaps she kept it to show us happy days are not easy to attain.
Mother was well educated. Her children should become excellent. My elder sister did very well at school, she could have become a college student. But mother asked sister to go to a technical school, so that two years later, she would be able to help support the family. Mother was a woman with high pursuit. But she had to make the decision under the circumstance. Sister did not become a college student, which must have been a pity for mother.
Everybody will have to endure life’s hardship sometimes. As a mother of three, she must have experienced more. A few days ago, mother donated some clothes to the flooded area. I heard her murmuring, “When we were poor, where were all the kind people? ” I suddenly realized there was much more I don’t know that mother had suffered in those hard days. Now her hair has become silvery and furrows appeared in her face. But she braved the elements and now her children have grown up. Mother must have felt that this is the best repay for her hard work.
Mother said she was destined to hard work. When it was time she enjoyed an easy life, she reclaimed a waster land near home and made it a vegetable garden. She spent a lot of time in the garden. When we asked her to stop working, she would say, “This not only saves money, but we can eat fresh food. Why not?” Her pleasure also included helping others design and sew dresses. Mother is such a person that she would always try to help those in need. Now advanced in age, mother has shouldered the responsibility of taking care of her grandchildren. She hoped to bring up them all. All her happiness comes from the happiness of her children and her children’s children.
Sometimes mother would say that But for the marriage, she would not have come to the oilfield. She might have become a great schoolmaster in her hometown, or a notable writer. Mother has expressed that hope that she will write a book, describing everything she has experienced. That would have to be a moving and encouraging book.
Looking back on the past, I don’t know how to express my love and gratitude to my mother. I only want to tell her, “You have created a miracle, a miracle belonging to your self. You gave your children the most abundant love in the world. We feel very proud of being your children. ”
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学生地带，我的第二个家——有空来做做，有事来发帖！！！！
——学生地带.真情男孩 |
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