热热闹闹母校90年诞辰大庆活动已经过去了10余天了,我的心说不清楚在哪里飘着呢?回美国好像不是很有吸引力,留在中国好像也不是很乐意。最主要的是妈妈,妈妈已经95周岁了,思维清晰敏捷,身体健康,生活基本自理。
2019年我回国的时候,带着妈妈去了很多地方,她可以爬山,登高,走很长很长的路,而如今已经不行了,出门的时候,我们得带着轮椅,不能让她走路了,这是去年底,她得了新冠之后腿脚便软了。
一个月了,我的时差已经倒过来了,晚上睡得很好,白天起得很早,是妈妈给我养成的好习惯。记得小时候要读书上学,6点钟我和二哥是必需起床的,不可以睡懒觉,也没有办法睡懒觉,早上起来洗漱,整理,吃饭,预习功课,6点钟起床,时间刚好够用,不紧不慢。
我读小学的时候7岁,而今我眼看就要60岁了,人啊人,这一生走得有多块,7岁的时候怎么能知道今天的60岁啊。那个时候妈妈严格要求我,是希望我快快长大,快快独立自主,自力更生,长大了,就离开家,离开父母吧。
第一次离开家去远行,我已经18岁了,那是去读大学,22岁大学毕业了,再一次远行,那是去工作,工作不久就结婚了,成家了,有孩子了,孩子带不过来,便缠着妈妈和爸爸帮我带孩子。
那个时候国家有一个部叫水利水电部,妈妈被评为了部里的优秀离退休干部,正在被一级一级推选为人大代表和劳模,那是全国性质的啊,我不懂国家级别的人大代表和劳模究竟是什么含义,什么样的人,需要什么样的努力才能有那样的功成名就?
我只是一封又一封家书,告诉妈妈,我是何等的需要她帮助我带孩子,帮助我正在成就的事业,妈妈读了我一封又一封哀求的信件,最终下定决心离开了她如日中天的事业,她是居委会主任,管辖着厂区两千多人口。
妈妈说:水利水电部的领导已经跟她谈话了,让她不要离开自己的工作,继续干下去,因为上级正在推选妈妈成为国家级人大代表和劳动模范,妈妈为了帮我带女儿,辞掉了工作,回到了南方,从此我们母女便朝夕相处了。
我是近几年才开始明白,当年的妈妈为了我究竟失去的是什么?妈妈为了帮我,为了来到我的身边,失去的是她头上熠熠生辉的光环,是后半生的热闹非凡,是登高远眺的辉煌,我无法明白,当年我写信是怎么写的,是如何蛊惑妈妈的。
妈妈为了我做出了如此重大的牺牲,17年前我却带着女儿义无反顾地离开了妈妈,我再一次远行,横跨了太平洋,从中国落户到了美国。我记得我和女儿真得离开家乡飞往上海浦东机场的时候,我感受到了母亲的抓狂。
是啊,母亲是为了我放弃事业的,而我却不能安心地好好地陪伴母亲,在我40出头的时候,我居然再一次远行。还算好,老天爷眷顾,我第二次婚姻并不好过,在美国的10余年里,我绝大部分时间是在中国,陪着爸爸和妈妈度过的。
今天妈妈已经95岁了,爸爸走了已经7年了,我也3年半没有回家看妈妈了。这一次回家跟以往任何一次回家都不一样了,妈妈对我的要求是寸步不离!我只要出去一会儿,回到家的时候,她便跟我说,她不想活了,她说自己已经是一个没有用的人了,活着只有拖累子女了。
妈妈说这样的话,是赌气,也是威胁,也是真心吧!我只能安慰妈妈,不要乱说,乱想了,这一次回来,就是陪妈妈的,我哪里也不走了,再也不远行了,我们母女一场,好好地陪护妈妈才是我最大的职责。
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years old. I don't like living in China because I know it's not for me. Another reason is my dad and I are totally not getting along. And all things considered living in the U.S is the best for me. It's kind of sad I shall never see my mother anymore but at least she's healthy and vibrant now. There's nothing to worry about with her. I can live my life peacefully till the end. She can live hers. My mother never asks to live with us because she's not that type of person that wants to cling on anyone else. She had cared about looking after my grandparents when they were around. She tried to stay close to them because her relationship with my dad wasn't very good. They were the worst couple that I've ever seen, except the one that murdered each other. So yeah, when your own marriage suffers, you start leaning on parents. My marriage is ok and I don't feel the need to seek emotional support. And as a mother, a working mother, I'm very busy. I've spent the past two decades building my own life and finally I feel secure. Even before I got everything I have now, I've never planned to go back. Even at the most difficult time, during the Great recession, without a job I never wanted to move back to China. Because I know I'm a misfit to live in China. I don't know how to deal with the complex relationships in Chinese society. It's not as simple as you work and you earn a living with your labor, like in the U.S. It has more than that. And I am too much of a simpleton to deal with it. The layers of complexity are too much for me to grasp. So I bid myself good riddance to China 18 years ago with a one way ticket and never stepped back. That was the last time I flew away from Chongqing.