The mother had only one eye and the narrator was embarrassed by her as a child. As an adult, the narrator distances themselves from their mother and forbids her from visiting their home. After their mother passes away, the narrator finds a letter explaining that the narrator had lost an eye as a child and the mother gave her own eye to the narrator so they could see the world. The narrator realizes their mother always loved them deeply.

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The Mother with One Eye
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My mother had only one eye. When I was
growing up, I hated her for it. I hated the
uninvited attention it got me at school. I hated
howtheotherchildrenstaredatherandlooked
awayindisgust.Mymotherworkedtwojobsto
provide for the family, but I was just
embarrassed by her and didn’t want to be
seen with her.
Every time my mother came to visit me at
school, I wanted her to disappear. I felt a
surge of hatred towards the woman who
made me the laughing stock of the school.
In a moment of extreme anger, I even once
told my mother I wanted her to die. I was
completely unconcerned about her feelings.
As I grew up, I did whatever was in my power
to distance myself from my mother. I stud-
ied hard and got a job overseas so I wouldn’t
have to meet her. I got married and start-
ed raising a family of my own. I got busy
with my job and family and with providing
a comfortable life for my beloved children. I
didn’t even think about my mother anymore.
Out of the blue, my mother came to vis-
it one day. Her one-eyed face scared my
young children and they started crying. I was
angry at my mother for showing up unan-
nounced and I forbid her to ever return to
my home and new family life. I yelled and
screamed, but my mother quietly apolo-
gized and left without saying another word.
An invitation to a high school reunion
took me back to my hometown after de-
cades. I could not resist driving past my
childhood home and stopping by the old
shack. My neighbors told me my mother
had passed away and left a letter for me.
“My dear child:
I must begin by apologizing for visiting your
home unannounced and frightening your
beautiful children. I am also deeply sorry that
I was such an embarrassment and source of
humiliation to you when you were growing up.
I have learned that you may be coming back
to town for your reunion. I may no longer be
there when you come, and I think it is time
to tell you an incident that happened when
you were a young child. You see, my dear
child, you were involved in an accident and
lost one eye. I was devastated at the thought
of my beloved child growing up with only
one eye. I wanted you to see the beautiful
world in all its glory, so I gave you my eye.
My dear child, I always have and always
will love you from the bottom of my heart. I
have never regretted my decision to give you
my eye, and I am at peace that I was able to
give you the ability to enjoy a complete life.
Your loving mother.”
Source:
http://www.livin3.com/3-inspirational-sto-
ries-that-touch-your-heart
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HDBaseT, promoted and advanced by the HDBaseT Alliance, is a consumer
electronic (CE) and commercial connectivity standard for transmission of
uncompressed high-definition video (HD), audio, power, home network-
ing, Ethernet, USB, and some control signals, over a common category
(Cat5e or above) cable with a standard connector (8P8C, often “RJ45”).[2]
The HDBaseT Alliance, incorporated on June 14, 2010 by Samsung Elec-
tronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, LG Electronics and Valens, was
developed to promote the HDBaseT standard originally created by Val-
ens.[3] The HDBaseT 1.0 specification was also finalized in June 2010.
[4] External accessories, such as dongles, were on the market in 2010
for devices not yet embedded with HDBaseT.[5] Products were demon-
strated at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show.[6] In mid-2013, the
HDBaseT Alliance issued Spec 2.0, an update to the original specifica-
tion, which enriches the HDBaseT offering to the pro-AV market, and
enables a multimedia home connectivity solution. Spec 2.0 specifies the
HDBaseT network protocol, defining the required adaptations across all
layers of the Generic OSI model, to provide the optimized services for
time sensitive applications, such as high throughput video and audio.
Spec 2.0 maintains all the features of Spec 1.0, but also adds network-
ing, switching, and control-point capabilities such as flexible and fully
utilized mesh topology, distributed routing, and end-to-end error han-
dling, enabling multipoint-to-multipoint connectivity and multistreaming.
Spec 2.0 also embeds USB 2.0, enabling touch-screen function-
ality and keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) for no-latency trans-
mission of ultra-high-definition audio and video. It also speci-
fies either category cable or fiber as the transmission medium.
The IEEE has announced that HDBas-
eT has been accepted as the IEEE 1911 standard.
HDBaseT is transmitted over category 6a cables or above up to 100
m (328 ft) long, with 8P8C modular connectors of the type com-
monly used for Ethernet local area network connections.[7][8]
HDBaseT transmits uncompressed ultra-high-definition vid-
eo (up to 4K), audio, power over HDBaseT (PoH - up to 100W),
Ethernet, USB, and a series of controls such as RS and IR.
HDBaseT is complementary to standards such as HDMI, and
it is an alternative to radio frequency, coaxial cable, compos-
ite video, S-Video, SCART, component video, D-Terminal, or VGA.
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4. Sadhguru looks at how whether it is an-
ger, joy or love, if we can keep it steady
and on, it can be a means to realization.
Q: When I am truly joyful and clear, there is
an exuberance inside; it is like I am melting.
But people around me are pulling me down,
eventhoughItrynottoletthem.AndifIkeep
to myself, I feel lonely. What should I do?
Sadhguru: The more lonely and depressed
you feel, the more the need for company.
The more joyful and exuberant you become,
the less you will need company. So if you feel
lonely when you are alone, that means you
are obviously in bad company! If you were
with a good person, why would you feel lone-
ly? You would feel great. People’s idea of exu-
berance is “Let’s talk, let’s dance, let’s listen to
music, let’s do this, let’s do that!” But you can
just sit quietly and be absolutely exuberant.
If your exuberance is manufactured, then
you need company. If you are exuberant by
your own nature, if life has become exuber-
ant, activity is just a consequence. If your life
is not exuberant, and you are trying to crank
it up with activity, then activity is the means.
This is the big difference. Either you dance
and arrive at a certain state of exuberance,
or because you are exuberant and you cannot
contain it, you dance. These are two differ-
ent things. Either because you are happy you
burst out into laughter, or someone told you,
“Every day in the morning if you laugh and
laugh, one day you will become happy.” These
are two different ways. Look at everything
aroundyou;tellme,whichwaydoeslifework?
Is it because there are flowers that the plant
and root came up like a support to the flow-
er? No. Because the exuberance in the stem
could not be contained, it flowered. This is
the way life should happen. If you try to live
the other way, it is going to be a very hard life.
Constantly putting yourself out into the world
like you are joyful, when you are actually not,
is the hardest life in the world. When you
are not happy, to show everyone that you
are happy, it costs a phenomenal amount of
life. Have you noticed this? There are some
people who, when they are happy, they are
happy; when they are not happy, they are
not happy. They just show it to everyone, the
whole world knows their act of life. Some
people manage to pretend all the time, but
it takes a phenomenal amount of energy to
keep it up like that. People end up with lumps
and tumors in their body constantly trying
to put on an act. If you make your mind in
a certain way, you will do that to yourself.
The only saving grace for people is they never
do anything steadily. Their joy is off and on,
their misery is off and on. It is never fully on. If
you become utterly miserable, you will see the
consequence of it. If you become utterly joy-
ful, you will see the consequence of it. If you
become utterly angry, you will see the conse-
quence of it. You do not see the consequence
of anything because you are always off and on.
People ask me, “Sadhguru, what kind of at-
titude and emotion should I have?” I say,
“Any damn thing is okay.” If you want to
be angry, be angry for 24 hours, non-stop;
you will get enlightened. If you like love,
be loving 24 hours. You will get enlight-
ened. Just keep it on, and you will come
to a certain realization. That is all it takes.
Everything – every cell, every atom – in the
existence can be a doorway to the beyond if
you go steadily at it. The problem is, people
keep shifting. This is happening in the world
today like never before. People think it is
a virtue that their attention spans are very
short. If you keep shifting, nothing happens.
Go wherever you want to go, but steadily.
Source:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/
masters-words/joyful-by-your-own-nature/
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