Romeo & Juliet.

For those of you who are familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in the mid to late 1500's, you know how the tragedy ends.

But have you ever considered that they might have had it easy? Even though they had to deal with the never-ending fray between their two families, they didn't have to deal with knowing whether or not the other person loved them back. They didn't have to hide their love from each other. All that they knew was that they loved each other and that they couldn't do anything about that. Multiple times they said that they were moving too fast, but they never slowed down, because they both knew that their love was true.

Why isn't there love like that in our world today? Most people say because we're smarter now, and now we don't die so early. Plus, they were teenagers, it was their hormones.

I think that it's because we just don't believe that brand of love ever really did exist in real life. I find this very depressing. Maybe since I'm a major romantic, I believe that this love is still possible, even at high school age, no matter what anybody says.

Those people who keep telling me that love is fake, and not worth dying for gets me kind of frustrated. Well, just wait until they fall in love. They'll be so head-over-heels for the person that they won't be able to handle it.

So, ha! When you don't know what to do with the feelings that you have, where will I be?

Romeo and Juliet. We salute you.