Most importantly, he didn't think for a second that his aging mother was suffering by living in a storage room. A wealthy family's storage room was far more spacious than the cramped, dilapidated flat his own family of four had been squeezed into before.
'Since his mother could endure so much hardship in the past to raise him, what's a little more suffering now for the sake of his future and career?'
Such a thought process seems absurd, but some people are perfectly capable of this kind of self-serving rationalization, feeling utterly justified. It has much to do with the values their parents instill in them from a young age. Suffice to say, in the cultivation of this bitter fruit, Mrs. Kohl's own contribution was indispensable.
