It’s been ten years since I moved abroad. At one point, the company offered me to become a manager in their branch abroad, so I agreed, took my wife and we went on a trip, but then it took too long. Now we already have a son who goes to school here, and we visit home very rarely, because work does not allow us to.
However, we do not forget about our relatives, we always send money to my mother, because my wife’s mother passed away a few years ago. Sometimes I could help my sister with money when she needed it, because she and her husband didn’t earn much, and they had three children to support.
Recently, my wife and I decided to return home.
When I arrived at my mother’s house in the village, I was stunned. Not only was the house falling apart and it was very unkempt, although my sister said they were helping my mother, but my mother herself was sitting in the cold house. We started talking and it turned out that the sister didn’t give my mother any money, and the old woman was surviving on her pension, which was barely enough to pay for utilities and food.
When I visited my sister, I was stunned by the second thing. She had managed to build herself a luxurious two-story house, bought a car, and her children had the latest smartphones. It became obvious that everything I sent my mother was appropriated by her. And my mother, out of kindness, covered for her, because I sometimes asked if she had received the money and how she would spend it.
How do you feel about such an act of a loved one? Could you forgive her?
