Unfaithfulness leads to hell, either physically or mentally.
“Let’s go for Long’s wedding!” said Fong, while she was lying on the bed.
In anger, her husband, Heng replied, “No, no, I won’t go. He’s an unfaithful son. He’s got a rich wife and he didn’t invite us either for his wedding ceremony….,” he burst out his anger ran its full course.
“Please, please go for his wedding. I miss him so much,….” her conversation was stopped by her occasional cough.
Heng walked towards Fong, comforting her with a low tone, “Don’t say too much, my wife! See, you’re coughing seriously,” he sighed and raised his voice, “Long is unfaithful to us. He’s belong to rich, but we’re poor…Have you forgotten that last time he chased you out of his office….?” in anger, he uttered, “No, no, don’t go, I’d never have such unfaithful son!”
The bursts of anger hung over Heng for a moment before he strode away fuming. Thinking of Long’s unfaithful attitude towards them, it did incense him with blindness and madness, just as though he was about to punch Long to teach him a lesson.
The following morning, without Heng’s knowledge, she planned to see his son at his wedding ceremony. She took a cab to go there.
The wedding ceremony was grand with its majestic and dazzling decorations. More and more VIPs arrived at the scene. The guests who gathered here were all rich people. They had their bodies very branded clothes put on. Many luxurious cars were parked row by row at the parking lot.
“Hey, Long, where’s your parents? Will they come?” asked his father-in-law.
“Maybe, they’re on the way…,” he stopped, pretending to make a call using a mobile phone. He pleaded over the phone, “Ma, no matter how, please come, OK? The wedding ceremony will start soon!” He murmured a few words over the phone as though he was talking with his mother. In fact, it was nobody there. Instead, he made a blank call.
One of the persons who in-charge for the procedure of the wedding ceremony said, “We can’t wait any longer…The guests have all arrived, and they’re waiting impatiently…Why don’t we just have the ceremony started…?”
Everyone there agreed to the suggestion. The guests were then moving their steps gradually to the wedding ball room.
Long moved among the crowd too. His eyeballs moved about every angle he could reach. He suddently became nervous when his eyesight stopped at one old lady who was coming out of the cab. Without any hesitate, he has himself disappeared from the crowd and he rushed to the stair as fast as his legs could carry him. He rushed furiously to the old lady.
Fong was happy seeing his son rushing to her. She mistakenly thought that his son was eagerly to see her. She approached him with her open arms as though she’d like to hug him. Spontaneously, she said softly, “Wow, you look so handsome with your clothes, Long! Mom, miss you so much!”
Long took a deep breath and shouted rudely, “You go home! Don’t come near me! Mom is poor, please go home! They’re all rich people there….Don’t embarrass me….”
Upong hearing his words, with a disbelieve look, she said, “Long, I give you everything you want…I care for you….and you ask me to get out from here…??” She shook her head, “Ok, never mind, I understand, please let me have a close look on you…just for a while, I miss you so much…I promise I won’t go inside the ball room there…”
Long went into an irresponsible action. He tugged Fong’s hands and pushed her to the ground. He pointed his index finger to Fong, and said, “I ask you to go home…Can you hear me? Don’t bring trouble to me …..You’re poor, and I don’t want my wife looks at your ragged clothes…please don’t embarrass me…”
In double-quick time, he pushed Fong rudely to the ground and gave her a kick, “Go, go out….disappear at once…!”
Fong was shocked, utterly shocked. There his son, first time pushed him so rudely to the ground. She could not believe that the handsome guy standing in front of her was his son. She was in considerable pain.
At this moment, his mind worked furiously. His temper was getting out of control. He groaned and dragged Fong’s arms, and said, “Get up, ….out of my sight or I’ll kill you!”
Out of desperation, Fong’s got up wearily.
Someone stormed out of the ball room. There, not far away, stood her wife, Lynn, and questioned him, “Dear, is this your mom? She looks so ugly and weird….!”
Looking at Lynn, he smiled hilariously and said, “Oh, this old lady is not my mom…She’s one of my clients, asking me to handle her case…She always comes to my office to seek for a legal help.”
“Oh, really! Why didn’t you tell her that today is our wedding day?” Lynn asked in a suspicious tone.
“I did tell her but she’s so forgetful. She asked me to cancel our wedding to handle her case…How crazy!” Long replied with a soft tone.
“Auntie, please go home first. I’ll handle your case later…!” Long held Fong’s hands gently. Looking at Lynn, he said, “Honey, you go back to the ball, I’ll come later!”
Lynn nodded her head and stormed back to the ball.
He stopped one cab and ordered the driver, “Send her home immediately…” he pushed out some money from his purse to be handed to the driver.
Fong was pushed harshly by Long inside the cab. She shook her head in disbelief.
After the marriage, Long and Lynn lived luxuriously. They bought innumerable amounts of luxurious products to decorate their house. They bought a big banglo, a big car, and at a time, they had many credit cards signed up.
One hot evening, when Lynn was feeding fish in the indoor buit-in pond in the living room, Long was sitting by her side. Suddenly, Lynn shook his shoulder while pointing at two swimming fish and said, “See, dear, the small fish is following his mother to the corner of the pond…Do you know why?”
Long looked at her and said, “The small fish feels more secure beside his mom lol…He needs his mom’s protection. We should care for our mom …mom is mom, right?” They burst into laughter.
Lynn stopped feeding fish and was fidgeting quietly by his side. She asked in doubt, “Do you love me more or your mom more?”
He looked at her in amazement. His eyes showed sympathy and something more important – love and strength. He held his breath and said, “Of course, I love you more.”
Reluctantly Lynn waved her right hand and said, “No, no! If I’ve a baby boy, I’d expect him to love me more rather than his wife. It’s not easy to carry a baby for nine months …. ”
Long was looking outside every now and then. She could feel a tangible change in mood among them. He looked at her, ah, there he found she demurely seated by his side. The clock was chiming 12 times, exploding the subdued silence between them. The brooding atmosphere then gave way to an excited chatter of happy voices between them. Soon, they were talking cheerfully as though they had known for decades.
When Long saw his mom was going to get out from the cab. He raced out of the house at an astonishing speed.
Fong approached him happily, “Son, mom has brought you your favorable dish…”
She rushed to hand over the food to him but alas, her unfaithful son pushed her from behind. She fell to the ground with all the food spreading all over the place where they stood. Through the blurring rain, Long saw she was grabbing the food madly from the ground.
“Go, go away! Don’t embarrass me…!”he felt rage rising within him. He went violence against his mom without a second thought.
Fong was still grabbing the food. He hesitated for a while. Then, he used his left leg to kick his mom from behind. He almost knelt down and pleaded, “Mom, please go…don’t make me feel embarassing! You’re poor! I can’t stand together with you…..!”
She stared at him in disbelief. Her sadden face became clearer to see. Some saliva trailed out from her mouth and he became mad!
Good God! What a horrible sight! Her body was lined with bruishes. Fighting with anger and tears, he held her up and forced her entering into the cab. He handed some money and for the second time he roared at the driver, “Send her home at once!”
The driver sat forlornly in his seat, waiting for Fong to seat properly in his cab. Disappointment kept her fully occupied. She felt like a dream, like a drama that came and went without trace. All that was left behind was a sweet memory and few joyous days that she spent together with Long since he was small. Little did she think that her wish would come true, but it was not the way she would have wanted. She held her breath, heart pounding. Her trembling lips denied her to say anything. She was coughing severely in the cab.
The sun beat down on his neck making him feel crazy and irritated. He stepped back, laughing hilariously.
Fong uttered a few words of disappointment towards Long. She was feeling very sick. She didn’t brame Long for the fault, as she knew that this was all her fault.
She prayed hardly in front of the altar. She looked at the God’s eyes and said:
Dear God, please forgive my son’s sin.
Dear God, please lessen his sin and I’d offer myself to bear on his sin.
Dear God, please forgive my failure for raising up my child.
Dear God, I feel extremely sinful in front of you. Please forgive my ignorance.
One evening when the sun was about to set, there emerged four men. As soon as Long got out of his car, these men came approaching him and gave him a punch on his face.
“Hey, our debt…you owe us debt! When …..???” One of them with a big belly asked him impatiently. The other tall one yelled, “Kick him, get him hurt!”
The one in white face mask craddled a short-gun under his arm pointing at Long. While looking Long was fully controlled by his man, the short but fat man roared out in laughter. Long’s anger was rising and he raised his voice. As if in reply to his retort, two men started shouting obscenities at him. Then suddenly a knife appeared in one of the man’s hand. The man that held the knife was small and in a flash he had the point of his knife at Long’s throat. Long froze and his face turned pale.
Long was slapped by the tall man. Reluctantly, he had to let them to grab all his cash and belongings from the house. Unwillingly, he saw them driving away his two Mercedes. Not only that, the short man pushed him into the third luxurious car that he owned. The car was heading to his office. He was held in a vice-like grip by the other man. He struggled but all he could do was to make the grip tighten more. It got difficult for him to breathe. Before leaving, two men gave him three hard kicks.
Slowly he dragged himself out of the office and wearily lean against the dark corner of the house. He had bruishes all over his body. His anger has no outlet to be let out. He was quite agitated and must have behaved badly.
Lynn got in home. She could see weary face sitting huddled-up at the corner of the living room. There was not a face that emited joy. Obviously, he was preoccupied with affliction and sadness. She walked near him and asked, “What’s the matter, dear?”
“I’ve a problem with my business. Couldn’t you help me, dear? Help me to borrow some money from your dad,….” he pleaded her eagerly.
“Hey, how many times are you asking for the borrowing? Where’s your money gone?”
She felt a steel-like hand clasp her shoulder. And just a glimpse of time, one slap stopped on her face.
Those words incensed him and he uttered, “You!”he pointed his trembling fingers at her with an angry look, continued to ask, “You ask me where’s my money gone? You want this and that…and all my money has gone to you….It’s all because of you, I’ve no money left…”
The atmosphere became stifling. His aggressive action irritated her. Her nerves was already frayed by his violence act and his words have come to bug her. Obviously, she was only the irritable one. Tears were rolling uncontrollably from both of her cheeks.
Long stepped out of the house, laughing and shouting.
By now it was getting dark. Lights came on in the bus station. He spied his wife at the pub. Bless her, she was still hanging around there at this time of the day. Probably he could get something to eat from her, he thought. He breathed a sigh of relief. He mustered his courage to walk over her.
“Dear, please get me something, I’ve not eaten for three days. I’m hungry…”
“You, don’t touch me…See, you’re so dirty with your clothes and hands to touch me..”
“Please, I’m hungry. Give me some money to buy food…” he almost has his half body collapsed to the ground, crying and pleading for her sympathy.
She roared in anger, “You, if not because of you cheated me before our marriage…Will you be in this horrible manner?” She turned her head, shouting in a high tone, “You, …get out of my sight! I don’t want to see you…you’re not my husband,” she reluctantly had her hands caught by his palm, cruetly she left him alone by the roadside.
By this time, taxis and cars joined in the traffic. Horns hoot and raised voices cut through the cool air. It was almost completely dark and the dizzle didn’t bring any cheer to him. He gazed at the dark clouds and put his hands to catch some raindrops. It was cold. He could feel the wind was blowing stronger and he shivered uncontrollably. His friend found him sleeping by the pavement.
When Long finally regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a warm dry bed.
“Hi, Long, are you alright?” Jang held a glass of hot milk to him after seeing he woke up from the bed.
“Ya, I’m alright.” His eyes were wandering wildly around the house. The room was tastefully furnished and decorated.
“I received your call few days ago, you asked me to solve your problem. What happened after your wife chased you out of the banglo?”Jang asked in curiousity.
Long laughed crazily. He gave Jang an innocent look. He scratched his head, and said, “My wife is a bad lady. She divorced me. She didn’t love me at all.” Some tears were seen rolling down from his cheeks.
He burried his face in his palms and cried as loud as he could. “Nobody loves me….”
“Did you go home to visit your parents?”
“No, I feel shameful to see them. I’ve been sinful towards them.”
“How long have you not seen them?”
“It was already six years I haven’t seen them. I didn’t even attempt to give them a call either.”
“What? Six years? No call? You’re such an unfaithful son!!!”
Long recalled, sad memory sprang to his mind:
I did go once to look for them. It was a day before I saw my wife for the last time at the pub. I was so hungry. I got back to my mom to see whether she could get me some food to eat. When I reached the entrance of the house, I could spy something familiar- the place where I’ve lived with my parents for nearly 20 years before getting married with my former wife. I knocked at the front door and shouted many times, “Mom, I’m back! Mom, where’re you?” No response at all. I kept on trying to knock at the door and shouting eagerly, “Mom, mom, mom!”
I must have started to day-dream because when I heard my name was being called, one medium-age woman was standing right in front of me.
“You, this unfaithful son, get away from here!” The woman ordered me, raising her voice.
I greeted her with a sweet smile and asked, “Can you tell me where’s my mom?”I asked her eagerly.
“They’ve long been deserted this house and back to the village.” Then, she passed me a note and disappeared in my eyes.
Though puzzling with her reply, I walked wearily holding my breath. With the trembling hands, I opened the folded paper carefully and read.
My dearest son,
I’ve not much life left. I’ve been very old now. No matter how you treat me, I’ll still love you. I pray for your happiness, safety and health everyday since the day you were born.
Do you know why my left eye is blind? I’ve gone through the operation to have my left eye to be implanted into your eye when you were born for a week. I don’t want you to go blind forever. I’d rather willing myself to be humiliated and cursed by others but I couldn’t bear to look at my son was being bullied as a blind man. I’m sorry for not telling you this earlier as I’d not want you to feel that you were born abnormal.
Dear son, you’ve to take care of yourself as I’ll die soon. You’ve to do your own prayers after that as no one will pray for you after my death.
Always love you,
Mom
After reading this letter, my tears went off like a fountain. My mind went crazy. I hit myself for being so forgetful and sinful towards my mom. Through the blurring rain, I saw my world in the dark. I went madly. It might be too late for me to think of her, I thought. My unfaithfulness might have injured her greatly. This was a big mistake I’ve ever made.
Jang continued to say, “So, this’s what happening around you?” He patted Long’s back for a comfort, and suggested, “Why don’t I bring you to see her now?”
Long was silent for a while. Jang prompted him to do so with a gentle look. Long finally agreed to go with him in his jeep.
The sun was hidden behind black clouds. It was probably a day full of misfortune.
There, in the village, throngs of relatives, and friends were gathered around Fong. She had suffered from a chronic heart attack. She breathed in difficulty. She could hardly breathe. She made an attempt to fight off the disease. She struggled to get her life loose from being caught by this deadly enemy. In a weak tone, she cried, “Long, where’re you? Mom misses you…Long….Long….Long………….Lo………..L………….” her breath stopped abruptly with her eyes opening wide. Someone closed her widely opened eyes gently. She has finished her journey as a human on this lovely planet.
Ten minutes later the room was filled with tears. Elsewhere in this room, people were sobbing. The atmostphere was immersed in tears.
Not far from this place, a jeep arrived. There, Jang jumped out of the jeep and then Long followed behind him. All eyes were on Long. He behaved strangely and he rushed madly to his dad, Heng. He approached him with joy and asked, “Dad, where’s mom?”
Heng tried to speak but no words came out. Long gazed alternately between the crowd and his dad. Slowly he could see his dad’s eyes misting over and he realised that he was in tears. Then from the corner of his eyes, he saw a figure at the doorway. He looked so strange. Long frozed. His eyes darted quickly around. He went into the room and for his surprise, he noticed one familiar body lying on the floor with people reciting around her.
Long closed his eyes in an attempt to ward off his disbelief that the body was belong to his mom. His eyes were roaming around the reciting people, and he shouted madly, “Stop reciting!” People there were disturbed and feared by his scary look. They stopped reciting.
Long lowered down his body and started shaking his mom, “Mom, mom, wake up! Wake up!” But his mom would never wake up, she slept peacefully with her hands put on top of her stomach.
Long stood at the fringe of the womenfolks to breathe in the cool weird air. He, for one, felt like he was stepping into an unknown and strange graveyard. He was filled with regret.
In the midst of the reciting came the chiming of the clock. The faint neon light impinged upon his retina. He laughed disbelievely and shouted, “No, no, this’s not my mom! Mom, where’ve you gone? I’m going to find you out right away!”
He half-jumped down the stair and he asked his dad who was at the doorway crying, “Dad, where’s mom? Where’s she gone?” He obtained no reply for this question.
Then, he approached to everyone there and asked, “Hey, what’s the matter? Why’re you everyone here looking so sad?” He looked at each other, half-cried and half-laughed. Then, he ran hilariously towards the thick bushes not far away.
“Follow him!” ordered the headman of the village.
Upon hearing this order, two strong healthy young men from the crowd were running to catch Long back.
Long ran as far as he could. He passed through a hanging bridge which his mom used to cross over to the other side to sell vegetables. He saw his mom’s shadow swaying at the end of the bridge. He yelled, “Mom, mom, wait for me!” But, when he reached to the end of the bridge, he was disappointedly watching his mother’s shadow vanish gradually. He proceeded his running till he reached one sandy beach. He was tipped over by one boulder and fell down. His face was facing to a patch of pebbles along the beach. All in a sudden, he had some blood come out from his mouth. He almost collapsed with fear. Was his life going to end like this? He felt like crying too. He could see blood all over his face. He was badly injured. Crawling with surprisingly fearful feeling, he collapsed helplessly into coma.
Someone on the bridge yelled, “He’s there! Quick!”
Immediately two men came to the beach and brought Long to the room. For a moment, people inside the room sat dumbfounded. One of the men helped Long to recover from the coma. His half-opened eyes made out half a dozen or more people who already seated on the chairs to observe his condition. One could smell the extreme odor- rotten fish plus smelly urine emitting from Long’s body. He had much orange-yellowish fluid spilled out of his purple colored lips. His breath was relatively weak. He half-sat on the floor before his breathing stopped. Slowly he sank to the floor and laid still.
Meanwhile the relatives, villagers and his dad were there to help carry the coffins of the deceased – Long and Fong, while heading to the graveyard.
Fong’s coffin was already carried there waiting for the burrying ceremony to be held but Long’s coffin was extremely heavy for the villages to carry along. The villagers had to painstakingly carry Long’s coffin while crossing over the bridge. The headman asked them to rest for a while. Someone from the crowd said, “Uuh, it’s as heavy as a stone!!!”
The headman said, “No matter how, we’ve to be patience to get the job done. Everyone here, be patient!”
Walking painfully and gradually, they finally reached to the graveyard. They were preparing to put Long’s coffin into the digging hole. Someone yelled from inside the hole, “Wait, the coffin can’t fit in the hole. It’s too narrow!” The people who carried Long’s coffin had already had their clothes bathed in sweat as though they had just come out from the swimming pool.
One old man approached Long’s dad and said, “Please forgive your son. You know, we’ve tried very hard to get the coffin to put it in the hole but it’s still cannot be matched in. “
Heng was as queit as a tomb. Quitely he got out shedding tears of sadness. From the corner of his eyes, hot tears melted over his freezing heart. He, for one, really felt bad to let them working so hard on the course of his son’s sin. Eventually, he nodded dumbly in reply signifying that he forgave his son’s sin. Miraculously, Long’s coffin was manage to put inside the digging hole.
In a moment, everything was eerily quiet. All that could be heard was the breathing sounds from people who gathered around the graveyard.
“Wait! Open the coffin, I want to see my husband’s face!” Lynn was rushing madly to the graveyard.
The headman instructed the man to open the coffin. Oh, my God, there were worms moving around his face! His face was almost eaten up by these scary-looking worms. Upon seeing this, his wife fainted right away. Immediately, someone rushed her to the hospital.
Jang witnessed his friend’s terrible appearance, he felt scared too. He asked one of the wise man there.
“I never think of betraying our own mom will have such punishment!” Then he continued, “But I never did like him….”
The wise man asked, “Have you ever hurt your mom’s feeling?”
Jang responded, “Not now, but when I was small, I did make her feeling sad….”
The wise man explained, “You can’t say you never cause your mom feeling sad when you’ve grown up. Her heart is so sensitive and tender to be touch….”
After saying this, the wise man left Jang to wonder. By this time, the crowd vanished gradually. Half an hour later, the place was almost deserted. Slowly the people ahead him became less, leaving him alone wondering about at the graveyard.
By this moment, the sun disappeared below the horizon and the sky turned dark. Soon, night was falling.
Jang was in a jeep driving back to his home. His mind was in confusion. After seeing worms came out from Long’s face, he felt regret to ignore his mom. He recalled:
“Dear, your mom’s call.” Jang’s wife, Xuan, handed over the phone to him.
“Just tell her that I’m busy at work.” Jang replied in short.
“Mom, Jang said he’s busy.”
“Ok, never mind. Just ask him to come back when he’s free.”
This conversation was repeatedly playing in his mind. He found himself sinful towards his mom as he used to have excuses to escape himself from visiting or calling his mom. The repeat of this experience was definitely not welcomed, he thought. Just few words spoken by the wise man had made him realising his previous mistake. It was another lesson for him.
All of the sudden, he diverted the route leading to his house to another route leading to his mom’s.
Then from the corner of his eye he spied something familiar. Ah yes, right next to the entrance of the house, a sixty-year-old woman sitting there to knit a net.
He jumped out of the jeep and walked leisurely around. When he stepped into the compound of the house, the sun was shining brightly. He squinted his eyes to get used to the glare. The day was hot but the sky was a beautiful blue. He had just cleared a fearful hurdle and he soon found himself unscathed. With a smile on his face he half-walked and half-skipped down the entrance, greeted gently, “Mom, mom!” He looked at his mom closely. Hmm…, though older, he noticed that she was just as lively as ever.
“Hey, Jang, you said you’re busy. Why you didn’t give me a call earlier so that I can prepare your favorable dish?”
“Mom, forgive me. I’ve been sinful towards you…”
“Hey, Jang, are you crazy? What’re you saying?”
“I know, mom you feel hurt, every time I say I couldn’t back to you. Please forgive me, mom!” Something inside him was deeply moved. Tears flowed out of his eyes.
His mom, May, had him hugged tightly and said, “Son, you’ll never do wrong. You’re my flesh. You’re always my flesh. How could I not forgive you?”
Jang cried all the way badly. His mom was moved too and they shed tears. However all good things must come to the end. The presence of his mom really made him realising how fortunate he was. He no longer put luxury as his top priority in life. Indeed, mother’s love is priceless!
This was a true story that I’ve adapted it into a story using my imagination. I hope you enjoy reading it while knowing the messages that I’d like to deliver here. We should thankful for having a loving and an understanding mom. She’s stern when it needs to be so and likewise liberal when the situation allows it. At most her scoldings, not only does it make us realise our mistake but also it make us wiser. Her place will never be replaced by anything precious in this world, as it is so priceless (Read Mother s love is priceless). Treat your mom or dad equally, don’t wait until they vanish from your sight. Give them a call and send them your regards and care as always as possible. (Read How often do we think about our parents? and How to have a good relationship with your parents).
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