Myint Aung shared Ko Ko Swe's photo.
အိမ္ေထာင္သက္ ၂၁ႏွစ္ၾကာၿပီးေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ဇနီးဟာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ကုိ အျခားမိန္းမတစ္ေယာက္ကုိေခၚ၊ ညစာထြက္စား၊ ရုပ္ရွင္သြားၾကည္႔ ျပဳလုပ္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ဇနီးျဖစ္သူကေျပာတယ္။ “ ကြ်န္မရွင္႔ကုိ ခ်စ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔ အဲဒီအျခားမိန္းမျဖစ္သူကလည္း ရွင္႔ကုိခ်စ္ေနတယ္၊
ေနာက္ၿပီး သူဟာ ရွင္နဲ႔အတူ ေနခ်င္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ရွီလိမ္႔မယ္ဆုိတာ ကြ်န္မသိေနတယ္” တဲ႔။ - ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ဇနီးက ကြ်န္ေတာ္သြားေတြ႔ေစခ်င္တဲ႔ အျခားမိန္းမ ဆုိတဲ႔သူကေတာ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔အေမပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေမဟာ မုဆုိးမအျဖစ္နဲ႔ေနထုိင္လာတာ ၁၉ ႏွစ္ရွိေနပါၿပီ။ သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္း ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔မွာ အလုုပ္ကတစ္ဘက္၊ ကေလးသုံးေယာက္ကလည္းရွိဆုိေတာ႔ အေမ႔ဆီကုိ ရံဖန္ရံခါမွသာေရာက္ျဖစ္တာမ်ဳိးပါ။ - အဲဒီေန႔ညမွာပဲ အျပင္ထြက္ ညစာစား၊ ရုပ္ရွင္သြားၾကည္႔ဖုိ႔ အေမ႔ကုိ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဖုန္းဆက္ ဖိတ္ၾကား လုိက္ပါတယ္။ “ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႔လဲ? ငါ႔သားေနမေကာင္းဘူးလား?” လုိ႔အေမကေျပာတယ္။ သူဟာ တစ္ခုခုကုိ သံသယျဖစ္ေနပုံရပါတယ္။ “မဟုတ္ပါဘူးအေမ၊ အေမနဲ႔အတူတူ အခ်ိန္ေလးယူေပးရတာ ေကာင္းမယ္လုိ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ေတြးမိလုိ႔ပါ” လုိ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ျပန္ေျဖလုိက္ပါတယ္။ “ အေမနဲ႔ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္ေယာက္တည္းပဲ”။ အေမဟာ အတန္ၾကာေအာင္စဥ္းစားၿပီးမွ ျပန္ေျပာပါတယ္။ “ အဲဒီလုိဆုိရင္ အေမ သိပ္ႀကဳိက္ပါတယ္” တဲ႔။ အဲဒီေသာၾကာေန႔ အလုပ္ကေနအျပန္မွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္အေမ႔ကုိ ကားနဲ႔သြားႀကဳိတဲ႔အခ်ိန္မွာ အေမဟာ ကုတ္အက်ီ ၤကုိ၀တ္ၿပီး အိမ္ေရွ႕တံခါး၀မွာ ရပ္ေစာင္႔ေနပါတယ္။ သူဟာ ဆံပင္ေလးေတြကုိ ေကာက္ထားၿပီး ၀တ္ထားတဲ႔အ၀တ္အစားဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ေနာက္ဆုံးမဂၤလာပြဲမွာ ၀တ္ဆင္ခဲ့ဖူးတဲ႔ မဂၤလာ၀တ္စုံနဲ႔ပါ။ နတ္သမီးတစ္ပါးရဲ႕လင္းေရာင္ျခည္ေတြလုိျဖာေနတဲ႔ အေမ႔မ်က္ႏွာက ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ကုိၿပဳံးျပပါတယ္။ “ အေမ႔သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကုိ အေမေျပာျပထားတယ္။ ဒီေန႔ သားေတာ္ေမာင္နဲ႔အတူတူ အျပင္ထြက္မလုိ႔ဆုိတာေျပာေတာ႔ သူတုိ႔ေတြ အေမ႔ကုိ အထင္ေတြႀကီးေနၾကတယ္ သားရယ္” လုိ႔ ကားထဲမွာ၀င္ထုိင္ရင္းေျပာပါတယ္။ - ေတာ္ေတာ္ေကာင္းၿပီး ဇိမ္က်လွတဲ႔ စားေသာက္ဆုိင္ေလးတစ္ဆုိင္ဆီကုိ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔သြားၾကပါတယ္။ အေမဟာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔လက္ေမာင္းကုိ ကုိင္ထားတာမ်ားဆုိရင္ သမၼတ ကေတာ္ ေလလား ထင္ရပါတယ္။ ဆုိင္စားပြဲမွာထုိင္ေတာ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာ အစားအေသာက္စာရင္းကုိၾကည္႔ေပးဖုိ႔ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ အေမ႔မ်က္လုံးေတြဟာ စာလုံးႀကီးႀကီးမွပဲ ျမင္ႏုိင္ေတာ႔တဲ႔အတြက္ပါ။ အစားအေသာက္စာရင္းကုိၾကည္႔ေနတုန္း တစ္၀က္ေလာက္အေရာက္မွာ အေမ႔ကုိၾကည္႔လုိက္ေတာ႔ အေမဟာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔ကုိ စုိက္ၾကည္႔ေနတာေတြ႔လုိက္ရပါတယ္။ အေမ႔ႏႈတ္ခမ္းေပၚကအၿပဳံးကေတာ႔ လြမ္းဆြတ္ေနတဲ႔အၿပဳံးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ “ ငါ႔သား ငယ္ငယ္ေလးတုန္းက menu ကုိဖတ္ေပးခဲ႔တာ အေမေပါ႔” လုိ႔ေျပာပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္က “ အခုအေမကအနားယူဦး ဒီတစ္ခါသားကုိ တလွည္႔ ဖတ္ခြင့္ျပဳပါဦး” လုိ႔တုံ႔ျပန္ေျပာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ညစာစားရင္း စကားေျပာၾကတာမွာ ေက်နပ္ႏွစ္သက္စရာေကာင္းလွပါတယ္။ စကားကေတာ့ ထူးျခားတဲ႔ အေၾကာင္းအရာမပါပါဘူး။ တစ္ဦးခ်င္းစီရဲ႕လတ္တေလာႀကဳံေတြ႔ရတဲ႔ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ေတြကုိသာ ေျပာဆုိမိၾကတာပါ။ စကားေျပာတာေကာင္းသြားေတာ႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ဟာ ရုပ္ရွင္ကုိမမီလုိက္ေတာ႔ပါဘူး။ အဲဒါနဲ႔ အေမ႔ကုိ သူ႔အိမ္ျပန္ပုိ႔ေတာ႔ အေမကေျပာပါတယ္။ “ အေမသားနဲ႔ အျပင္ကုိ ေနာက္ထပ္သြားခ်င္ပါေသးတယ္- ဒါေပမယ္႔လည္း သားကဖိတ္မွ အေမလုိက္မွာပါ” တဲ႔။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ေခါင္းၿငိမ္႔ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ - “ ညစာစားရင္း ခ်ိန္းေတြ႔တာ ဘယ္ႏွယ္လဲ?” လုိ႔အိမ္ျပန္ေရာက္ေတာ႔ ဇနီးျဖစ္သူကေမးပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ျပန္ေျဖလုိက္ပါတယ္။ “သိပ္ကုိေကာင္းတာပဲကြာ။ အဲဒီေလာက္ ေကာင္းလိမ္႔မယ္လုိ႔ ကုိယ္ေတာ႔ မေတြးေတာမိခဲ႔ဘူး”။ - ရက္အနည္းငယ္ၾကာအၿပီးမွာ ျပင္းထန္တဲ႔ႏွလုံးတုိက္ခုိက္မႈေၾကာင္႔ အေမကြယ္လြန္သြားခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ခ်က္ခ်င္းလက္ငင္းႀကီးျဖစ္သြားတာေၾကာင္႔ အေမ႔အတြက္တစ္ခုခုလုပ္ကုိင္ေပးဖုိ႔ရာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္႔မွာ အခြင္႔မသာခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒီလုိနဲ႔ အခ်ိန္ေလးေတာ္ေတာ္ၾကာလာေတာ့ စားေသာက္ဆုိင္တစ္ဆုိင္က စာအိတ္ေလးနဲ႔အတူ ေငြလက္ခံျဖတ္ပုိင္းေလးေရာက္လာပါတယ္။ အေမနဲ႔ကြ်န္ေတာ္အတူတူ သြားခဲ့ၾကတဲ႔ စားေသာက္ဆုိင္ကပါ။ စာအိတ္မွာအတူတြဲပါလာတဲ႔ စာကုိဖတ္ၾကည္႔လုိက္ေတာ႔ “ အေမဒီစာရင္းအတြက္ ပုိက္ဆံႀကဳိတင္ေပးခဲ႔လုိက္ပါတယ္။ အေမ အဲဒီဆုိင္ကုိေရာက္ျဖစ္ဦးမယ္၊ မေရာက္ျဖစ္ဘူးဆုိတာကုိေတာ့ မေသခ်ာပါဘူး။ ဘယ္လုိပဲျဖစ္ပါေစ ႏွစ္ပြဲစာဖုိးကုိ ပုိက္ဆံေခ်ခဲ႔လုိက္တယ္။ တစ္ပြဲက သားအတြက္နဲ႔ ေနာက္တစ္ပြဲက မင္းမိန္းမအတြက္ပါ။ အဲဒီေန႔ညက အေမ႔အတြက္ ဘယ္ေလာက္အဓိပၸါယ္ရွိခဲ႔တယ္ဆုိတာ ငါ႔သားသိခ်င္မွ သိပါလိမ္႔မယ္။ မင္းကုိအေမခ်စ္တယ္ သား ။” - အဲဒီအခုိက္အတန္႔ေလးမွာပဲ ခ်စ္တယ္ဆုိတဲ႔စကားကုိ အခ်ိန္မီေျပာလုိက္ျခင္းဟာ အေရးပါတယ္ဆုိတာရယ္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ခ်စ္တဲ႔သူေတြကုိ သူတုိ႔နဲ႔ထုိက္တန္တဲ႔ အခ်ိန္ကုိေပးဖုိ႔ဆုိတာ ကုိ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ သေဘာေပါက္နားလည္လုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဘ၀မွာ မိသားစုထက္ ဘယ္အရာကမွ ပုိၿပီးအေရးမႀကီးပါဘူး။ သူတုိ႔ေတြနဲ႔ထုိက္တန္တဲ႔အခ်ိန္ကုိေပးလုိက္ပါ။ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႔လဲဆုိေတာ႔ ဒီလုိအရာေတြဟာ “ေနာက္ေတာ႔မွ” ဆုိၿပီးေရႊ႕ဆုိင္းလုိ႔မရတဲ႔အရာေတြျဖစ္ေနလုိ႔ပါပဲ။
- A Date with another woman
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After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you.” - The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally. - That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. “What’s wrong, are you well ?” she asked. She was suspicious of something. “I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,” I responded. “Just the two of us.” She thought about it for a moment, and then said, “I would like that very much.”That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up , She was waiting at the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel’s. “I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed, “she said, as she got into the car. - We went to a restaurant that was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Half way through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,” she said. “Then it’s time that you relax and let me return the favor,” I responded. During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation – nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed. - “How was your dinner date?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined,” I answered. - A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her. Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place mother and I had dined. An attached note said: “I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates – one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.” - At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU” and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till “some other time.” Credit to English-ျမန္မာ စာပေဒသာ။
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