Some said that the most invisible lethal weapon of mankind is a curse. It is even more so if the curse came from an old sick or senior people. These peoples are those that about to die, they curse you because they hate you. And when they die, they bring along with the resentment into the grave. And that we called ? ?. Since young my mother always reminded and warned me of the consequences. She even has a few true life stories to share with me so as to engrave her strong warning on my
head. If the only last thing the dead people carry into the coffin is a ? ?, than it would not be easily dismissed. Even worst, it may never be dismissed.

My story today is not from my mother. It is a true long story from a man i met through our today internet world. His name is Ah Chai in his mid 40’s. Ah Chai decided to give me a call after he read all my stories on my blog. He was very depressing and lost when i first met him in our temple.

To start the story, i have to take you back to 25 years ago. Can you still remember what you did and could had said 25 years ago? I think most of us here including Ah Chai cant possibly recall much either. But i will tell you later in the story how Ah Chai can recall every details of words 25 years ago.

25 years ago, Ah Chai was a young man who had just married his girlfriend. He was foolish enough to commit a crime and was charged for criminal offence and was sent to jail. After his released, he couldn’t find a stable job and eventually, he had to live with his wife’s family home and depend on his wife for a living. Soon, his wife’s family members feel Ah Chai was an eye sore and slowly, they were not happy with him.

Ah Chai was broke but he was still young and spiritually confident, he thought he was going to make it big one day and thus he fight back and started to show disrespect to the elderly in the family.

In the family, there was this Ah Ma. She is the grand-mother of Ah Chai’s wife and she was especially like her grand-daughter. Because of her
grand-daughter, she got no choice but to keep the eyes sore together under the roof.

Not long later, Ah Chai mother-in-law who was the daughter of the old Ah Ma passed away due to illness. And Ah Chai who was already not in a good term with the family choose not to fulfill the Chinese funeral as a son-in-law. At the most he would do was just to attend the wake and not anything more. For this, the old Ah Ma was very angry with Ah Chai and she thinks Ah Chai was very inhuman. They have been sheltering him since he was jobless and broke and now they are not asking for anything but just a simple respect and duty of a son-in-law should do.

[Posted at: The Curse – Part 1]