An Email from Mom

No. 160 The story introduced this time

Here, I compile stories that have become topics on the internet and in the news, along with videos uploaded to YouTube and other platforms, as "stories so good they bring tears to your eyes."

The story I am introducing this time is a post by a high school girl who, after her mother passed away, noticed emails her mother had sent while she was still alive, and in doing so, felt regret while simultaneously accepting her mother's death and feeling gratitude.

※Regarding the posting date,
summary site I confirmed the post from February 22, 2010, via a copy-paste, but I apologize if this is incorrect.

There was a YouTube video based on this story, so I will introduce it as well.

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Sorry for the poor writing of a high school student.

Shortly after I entered my third year of junior high school, I was told that my mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

At the time, my head was so full of entrance exams and club activities that I only thought about things like whether our daily life would be okay or if we would have enough money.

In May, my mother was hospitalized. Sometimes she would come home, so I thought she would get better. Then summer ended, and I retired from the swimming team I had been in. Since I no longer had club activities, I naturally had more free time.

After that, I was taken to visit her almost every day by my father, but I only thought about wanting to go home early and wanting to study.

Two months later, six months after she was hospitalized, my mother passed away. I heard she was in the terminal stage and didn't have the physical strength to undergo surgery. I was able to be right by her side when she passed. I cried at that time, but there was a part of me that thought, 'Oh, is this it?' I wondered how fleeting a person's death could be.

After that, although things didn't return to normal, with the support of my father and relatives, I managed to regain my rhythm of life and successfully entered the high school I had aimed for. However, since it was a relatively college-preparatory school in the prefecture, I soon fell behind. I also couldn't break out of the slump in swimming, which I had participated in up to the Tohoku tournament in junior high, due to the break I took for entrance exams.

Then, the other day, after the end-of-term tests were over, I was messing around on my PC at home and suddenly thought I would try logging into the inbox of a free email account I used to use. I opened it thinking there might be some interesting spam, and as expected, hundreds of spam emails had arrived.

Among them, I saw my mother's familiar email address.

Mixed in with the spam emails, there were many, many of them. When I opened them, some said 'Happy Birthday' or 'Congratulations on making it to the Tohoku tournament,' while others asked things like 'Did you eat properly?' or 'Please help your father.' There were many emails with content like that.

I cried. I cried, and then I felt regret.

Why didn't I tell her my new email address? I can't say thank you. I think that was the moment when the fact that my mother was gone and the fact that my mother had died became one and the same for me.

I'm sorry for the reply being over a year late. Thank you. I love you.

Video

I would like to introduce a video that was created based on this story.

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Finally

My note articles are not intended for profit.
I am simply writing these articles because I want to share stories that moved me to tears with all of you.

However, if there are any issues regarding "copyright" or similar, please let me know and I will delete them.

Additionally, the header images posted were created using materials from Irasutoya-sama and Minchirie-sama.

Thank you for taking your time to read until the end.