NOT BY SHAKESPEARE

An unlikely conversation between Romeo and Juliet

Lasting Love #2

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Says Romeo

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I believe that we had a noble love for each other. Can we not blame our tragic story on our feuding parents?

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Says Juliet

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Yes, easy to do. And we say that we fell gently in love, not madly.

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Yes, and we knew well that lasting love requires smart choices and responsibilities and all.

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But was that true? I mean, regardless of our rather careless parents, were we without fault? 

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Well, I think that our amorous passions opened for us new perspectives, but at the same time limited what we saw as our choices.

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Says Juliet

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Knowing one's choices and responsibilities is one thing, and feeling or sensing one's options is another? 

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Perhaps. We cannot tell ourselves whom to fall in love with, whom to be in love with.

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Or fall out of love with. Forgiving one is easy, but forgetting one is not. 

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Desiring one and not another, being attracted to one and not another are fateful accidents, yes?

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Yes, that is why people say that love is ineffable, inexplicable, messy and all. And that scares a great many folks.

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But is that not what makes love so virtuous? It may break rotten social molds, it renews life in indeterminate ways.

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The trend is that fewer singles are willing to marry without love - and not only here in the Western world.

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I think that a lot of folks are still more comfortable playing it safe. Love, sex, family, even money - it all matters.

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At least we left this world knowing in our hearts what amorous love is, that is, without regrets about having missed out on it...

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