All You Need Is Love
Romeo and Juliet Montague recently celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary, a quiet dinner at home, no banquet, no family invited. The two children stayed the night at Benvolio's house. Romeo intends to take the next morning off. He is now an electrician specializing in computer repairs and, working by and for himself. Juliet is working on a bachelor's degree in accounting with an eye on law school, having spent much of the past dozen years raising two rambunctious boys, teaching them Shakespearean English and depriving them of those dangerous rubber-tipped play swords. Romeo and Juliet, we are happy to report, are still very much in love (Solomon 192).Romeo and Juliet: Can we ever consider the names separated? Romeo without his Juliet or Juliet without her Romeo, that would be unheard of. Everyone knows the story of the two star-crossed lovers, and it represents our idea of true love. The idea that true love is so passionate, so blinding, so intense, that even the thought of life without the beloved would be inconceivable. Caring for someone so much that in everything one does, one asks himself how this action will affect the beloved, or doing everything in one's just to see the beloved happy. This is true rom
Plato suggests that love is nothing less than a shared self-identity, a desperate lifelong attempt by each of us to find "one's better half"(Price 45). The pieces that do fit, fit with bonds of love. " Friendship love is one of greater complexity even than of romantic love. I watched with voyeur's fascination as the couple in their eighties slowly seated themselves in the rural Wisconsin Holiday Inn coffee shop for a Sunday breakfast. Balancing the honesty with sincerity and loyalty takes much work. The pieces in that puzzle either do or do not fit. All our lives we are meeting people throughout our daily routine, in a way searching for that one person, that completion in our lives: the one that makes us whole.
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