Once upon a time there were two youngsters, a boy and a girl

. Their families HATED each other.

But the boy snuck into a party hosted by the girl's family because he is such a BADASS. The girl sees the boy, and angels sing to her so sweetly that she instantly falls in love with him, JUST LIKE THAT.

And so he sneaks into her garden, and they decide to get married the NEXT FREAKING DAY, because you know, that's so practical, especially when your parents want to murder each other.

Jump ahead a few days. Their families find out about the marriage and throw a SH*T FIT.

The girl is so UPSET that she drinks a potion that will put her to sleep for two days. But UNFORTUNATELY, the young couple hasn't learned the ins and outs of good marital communication yet, so the girl TOTALLY FORGETS to mention something about it to her new husband.

The young man therefore mistakes his wife's self-induced coma for a suicide. He then totally LOSES HIS MARBLES and commits suicide thinking he is going to be with her in the afterlife.

But then she wakes up, only to learn that her new husband is gone, so she has an EXACT SAME IDEA and kills herself too.

THE END.

"Romeo and Juliet" is SYNONYMOUS with romance in our culture today. It is seen as THE love story, an romantic ideal to live up to.

Yet when you REALLY get down to what happens in the story, these kids were ABSOLUTELY out of their minds. And they just killed themselves to prove it.

It's suspected by many scholars that Shakespeare wrote "Romeo and Juliet" NOT to celebrate romance, but RATHER to satirize it, to show how absolutely nuts it was.

He didn't mean for the play to be a glorification of love. In fact, he meant it to me the opposite - a big flashing neon sign blinking "KEEP OUT!" with police tape around it saying "DO NOT CROSS!".

(Mark Manson,
“The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck”)

***

Any thoughts? 😉