My mom - 1

It's going to be Mother's day this Sunday. I am thinking about writing something about my mom.

She was gone just 3 days before Christmas in 2000. About a week earlier before she was gone my older brother called me and told me she was not doing well, we booked the tickets right away, got on the airplane the second day and had to stay in Japan for one night. That's a really long night for me, couldn't fall sleep so we were laying in the bed and watching some Japanese TV and suddenly I felt my heart sinking and just felt so sad, not heart-broken but hopeless... I was trying to get rid of that feeling, it was devastating.

Later on i knew that's the time my mom was gone, she couldn't hold on and wait for me.

My mom was a very generous person and she could forgive anybody, she had a big heart.

Fortunately she came here visiting us for a short period of time and we took her several places , D.C. , Las Vegas...etc. She liked Washington D.C a lot. After that I got back hometown spending 3 and half weeks with her after I knew she was sick. I never told her that I loved her so much in person, that's not the culture we were grown up. The only thing made me feel better was that I hugged her in the airport when she left for home after 2 month of visiting us. At that moment my mom had tears in her eyes, normally I don't show emotion in public place, but that time I was very emotional after she got on airplane. The weird thing was that she was diagnosed by a deadly skin cancer a month later by everybody's surprise. Everybody from her family lives long, my grandfather died as 94 years old.
All those years, that hug has been giving me a lots of comfort and peace.