Reading Response

    Romeo and Juliet

True love will never burn, most love ends up failing but the love that bloomed between Romeo and Juliet is everlasting. There are always heart brakes and aches. There is no such love that exists in our time that compares to the love of Romeo and Juliet. Most people won't dare to risk their life for the one they assume that they "love."

   True love is like a myth. Are fairies real? Would you act like a fool and rush out your front door in a search for a fairy if you know it's fake? You wouldn't- because most of the time in myths such as fairies will approach you. Fairies allow wishes, and you won't be able to go out and find a fairy who will give you wishes.

Same goes with true love or any love. You can never find it- it comes to you.

   Reading Romeo and Juliet for the second time, I was engulfed in a world that didn't seem so vast the first time reading it. I took it as a bunch of young lovers who were stupid and didn't realize what life was. 

   When I read Romeo and Juliet the first time there were very little emotions that immersed in my mind. Romeo- a total idiot who keeps getting depressed just because he can't find true love? Love is different from the way Romeo thinks of it. He falls in love with one girl- then switches his gaze to another, and at the same time expects the girl to love him back, so that he can live happily ever after. 

Not so much Prince Charming.

   Everything seemed so explicit. The plot in my opinion was very easy to figure out. It was all laid out in front of me, and when that happens, reading that book doesn't seem so much fun. 

   The one thing that made me stagger a bit was the ending. Romeo dies, and then Juliet- believing the love between them had been so authentic, that she decides to kill herself as well, so that they can once again be together.

That's great. I love the ending. It's not Cinderella.

   At the same time the ending of Romeo and Juliet makes me wonder about what Shakespeare is trying to say. Is he saying that you may fall in love- believing that it's all very true, to realize it wouldn't last on Earth but maybe in the hereafter? 

   That got me confused, and that's one of the questions I'm trying to unveil when I'm reading Romeo and Juliet again.

   There's love out there for everyone. Everyone has a soul mate. Everyone will have someone they can't stop thinking about. Maybe the day will be tomorrow or maybe it's today. It's there. And it will come to you.