They’d said it would work out, but Mark didn’t believe it. He was getting on his own nerves, regretting that he’d let his mother talk him into marrying Sara, who was nine years older than him. She had her own apartment, a job in the same firm as my mother, and rich parents. She was a nice girl, too, and beautiful, and a housewife, but Mark had no love for her. He liked the girl next door, Jessica. They’d been going out together since kindergarten, even dated, but Jessica didn’t want to get married, and Mark’s mother found another bride.
The boy sighed over his lost opportunities for a long time, but then somehow it went away, he got over it. Sara turned out to be a very good wife, she was interesting and fun, comfortable, which is most important. Wealth had not mattered to Mark before, but because of his new love for his wife, he did not care about money at all. That’s when they had a happy marriage.
It was all right for his mother to talk him into it, and for Sarah to get her way, because Mark’s love only grows stronger. He had time to forget about his ex-girlfriend, now he has other worries – children, home, family, work, not to the former resentments and regrets. It is much more important to live in the present and not to look back at the past, wondering whether he made the right choice. The most important thing is to feel good right now, in this place, with these people.
