To sons and daughters

Parents - a touching story
When the son came back, the mother immediately ate the food without aword.She stared at him. The son took a taste on his mother's food andspitted out immediately. He ranted at his wife," Didn't I told you thatmymother cannot take too salty food?!" The wife shouted,"OK!She's your mum! You cook for her in future!"
After saying that, she stormed into their room angrily.Feeling helpless,the son told the mother,"Mum, don't eat this anymore. I will cook you abowl of noodles."
The mother said, "Son, you have something to tell me? Don't keepeverything to yourself."
Son:"Mum, I am going to get promoted soon and my upcoming workingschedule will be very, very tight...and as for my wife...ummm...she saidshe will be going out to work...."
The mother understood what he meant and said in a begging manner,"Son,please don't send me to the Old Folks' Home.." The son remained silentand tried to think of a good reason to persuade her mother.
Then he said," There is nothing wrong with the Old Folks' Home.Once my wife had went out to work, no one will serve you as well as theHome which provides you meals and care. It woulddefinitely do much better than being at home."
The son went for a bath after that and went into the Study Room.He looked out from the windows and thought back and hesitated awhile.... His mother has been remaining as a widow since she was youngwith him, and brought him up painstakingly, solely.
She tried all means to earn as much as she could, in order to supporthim in studying overseas. Yet she expected nothing nor used her pastpainful experience to threaten his son to be filial.
While now, his wife is threatening him with the stake of their marriage.
"Should I send my Mum to the Home?" He asked himself."The only person who will accompany you till the end of your life wouldbe your wife.." said a friend before. "Your mother is in old age now,and if she's lucky, she might be able to live for a few more yearslonger. Why not be filial to her for this period of time? reminded bysome relatives.
He was stuck in a dilemma. He did not want to think anymore, in ordernot to affect his decision.
The son found a Home with high standards, built on a beautiful andtransquil mountain top. He told himself that he would feel much betterwhen the more he spent. When the son helped his mother into the lobby ofthe Home, the 42" TV was turned on. The programme shown on screen was acomedy. But no one was laughing.
A few old folks, dressed similarly in clothing, were sitting there, in adaze. There was one who was sitting improperly on a sofa, there was onewho was bending down to pick up a piece of biscuit from the floor, therewas one who was talking to himself...
The son knew that his mother likes sunlight, so he chose a room withample sun rays shining into the room. By viewing out from the room, wasa big piece of greenery scene. Few nurses were wheeling some old folksout for some fresh air.
It was so pathetic of silence in the background. The sun would stillneed to set down. Soon it was dusk. The son told the mother,"Mum, I amleaving."
The mother waved to him to say goodbye, opening her toothless mouth..
He turned back to look at his mother. She was full of grey hair andwrinkled skin with deep set eyes...
He found that she was really old. He remembered when he was six, due tosome circumstances, his mother cannot bring him along with her thustemporarily placed him at a relative's home for few days. He recalledhugging his mother's thigh and begged her not to leave him alone. In theend, his mother never leave him alone and decide to stay with him.
He stopped thinking and left.
When he returned home, his wife and his mother-in-law were busydiscarding things from his mother's room, happily.One of the discardeditem was his tall trophy which he won as First Prize when he was young.He wrote an essay on "MY MOTHER". The second item discarded was adictionary. That was the first gift from his mother, who scrimped andsaved for a month in order to buy for him.
He shouted,"Enough! Stop discarding anymore!"
His mother-in-law cried," There were so much rubbish. If don't discard,there would not be any place for my stuff.."
His wife continued,"Yeah! Need to dump away that old, stinky bed of yourmum too. We will buy a new bed for my mum later,"
He saw some pictures from the stack..they were taken at a zoo andamusement park when his mother brought him there.
"These are precious belongings of my Mum! You can't discard them!"
"What sort of attitude is this? I demand you to apologise to my MumNOW!" ranted the wife.
The husband said," When I got married with you, that showed that I willlove your Mum too. But why can't you do the same too?"
He went back to the Home and saw his mother weeping in between her fraillegs. She was missing the moments when her son would apply ointment forher every night...
The son kneeled before her and said,"Mum, here I come. I brought theointment too." The mother said," I will apply it myself, Son! You stillneed to work tomorrow. Go home, Son!" Son said,"Mum, please forgive me!
Let's go home!"
Hope this is inspirational and touching to you. Without our parents, wewon't be here. No parents will resort to harm their own children. Theyonly want the benefits for them.
For Daughters & Sons: Please remember to return gratitude to your dadsand mums.
For Daughter-In-Laws & Sons-In-Laws: Please love your in laws as you didto your parents, becasuse without them, you will not find yourpartners...they are parents too..
To everyone - its not about sending them away. even for those who arekeeping them at home and treating them like they never existed.
From today : Go wish them every morning & Thank them for bringing you tothis world.
For what ever you do to them , you will receive in 2 folds back + bonus!!!! Cos you have kids too and they are watching you.
Wife / Husband can leave you and go but Mum / Dad is a bond for life. Nomatter how bad you treat them they - Mum / Dad will still love you.
Treat badly yr wife / husband, see what happens? Then you will know howgood the sofa is ?