you should love whatever or whoever I love.
Tut tut... No, no, no, your parents aren't you, so you can't tell them to like or love the person you like. They're individuals also, so even if you were from them, he definitely couldn't order his parents like that. Anyway, seven years? Wow! What blind ambition indeed! It was really sad that he didn't end up with the woman he really loved, but wasting seven years just to mope on the woman who he just assumed to love him back the way he did was hilarious. Maybe she loved him—but you can't expect a person to love you with the same intensity as you loved them. I guess he still doesn't get what love really is... It isn't always about holding onto the person, for sometimes you gotta let them go if you really love them dearly. Thanks for sharing such an emotionally evoking story, @lightpen!
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That's very correct. Mike was blinded by his love for Aisha. He couldn't discover that his preference is not necessarily the same that of his parents. I think Aisha only expressed verbal love to Mike. When the time came for her to prove it beyond a doubt, she failed to do so. Mike was in love with himself unknowingly.
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It was just sad that he had caged himself for many years with that misdirected perception of love he had. Maybe he's not really that in love with Aisha, but instead he's in love with the idea of loving her because that felt genuine for him.
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