Love & Life Lessons I Learned From “Love & Basketball”

We Can Learn from Our Parents

Many of us tend to forget that our parents are regular people who had a baby! Most of them try very hard to do the best they can but they aren’t perfect – we just don’t understand that.  Monica never understood why her mom was so, in her eyes, subservient to her husband.  She didn’t respect her mom’s choice to become a stay-at-home mom and provide a “proper” home for her children and her husband. (She also got slapped in the face for being quite disrespectful while voicing her displeasure.)  I think part of Monica “finding herself” overseas was not only due to her not being able to get over Quincy but also trying not to be like her mom.  Quincy also found himself at a loss because for about 19 years, he looked up to his father and there was no one greater. When he found out his father was a “mere mortal,” he didn’t know what to do. It was like he crawled his way back to “finding Quincy.”