Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:55 PM
I have two huge scars on my body. One on my right leg and one on my left leg. These two scars join at my back and I have a scar at my hip. Well, actually, they are all one scar.
I don't really hide my scars. I show them off. What is there to be ashamed of? I wonder. Actually, I am proud of my scars. I want the world to know my story and learn from it. Not to repeat it anymore. For, it really did left a deep scar in me. Though I cannot remeber this incident at all, I am telling you what my mother exactly told me.
I was nine months old. Not able to speak yet. At that age, I was learning how to walk. You know, when you learn how to walk, you sit in some kind of "wheelchair" for the babies where you walk around sitting in it.
I was just like any child, young and curious. Perhaps my curiosity was overwhelming and it turned out, curiosity killed the cat.
I went to the kitchen and my mother was boiling some water. It was the electrical kind of kettle where you have a cable attached to it.
So, me with my itchy hands, climb up the table, pulled the cable and voila! There I am with the scar now.
My mother feels guilty. But, it isn't her fault. It was entirely my fault. All the fingers was suppose to be pointed at me. Sigh. I feel guilty. Me with my itchy limbs, can't keep them to the body. Haha. Well, I was just an infant. What do you expect?
According to my grandmother, my mother was there beside me at the hospital all the time. She was so heart broken that when my Grandma asked her to take some rest and eat, my mother refused. It was heart wrenching to hear that.A mother's love for her child is greater than anything in the world. This is clearly potrayed in many books like Harry Potter. And as a child, we have the duty to be responsible to our parents and be filial.
My scars don't hurt now. Sometimes, my mother will come and ask me whether do I blame her for my scars. Whenever I hear that, I feel so guilty. I don't blame her. She was innocent and she is reprimanding herself for causing my legs to be scarred. Sigh...
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