Romeo and Juliet was a tragic
romance written by popular playwright William Shakespeare and can be summarized
as follows: Boy meets girl. Both boy and girl know that their parents won't let
them get involved. Neither boy nor girl care, and they arrange to be married in
secret. Meanwhile, the cousin of the girl gets in a fight with the boy's best
friend and kills him; the boy then kills the girl's cousin in a fit of rage,
and as a result is banished from the city. The girl is distraught and seeks to
fake her own death so that she can escape home to be with her love. However,
the boy is not told of this, and when he returns to town he believes the girl
to be dead. Anguished, he poisons himself. Girl thereafter awakens and on
seeing the boy dead, stabs herself with his dagger! There is much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
All these types of stories do not
relate to the love which is ideal and which we should strive for! A person who
kills himself to prove his love for another only shows disdain for the gift of
life given to him and his death will not add any value to the life of the one
for whom he has taken his own life! Many young girls who have in their youth
been given to such so called “love stories” have had only themselves to blame
when they realize that in real life things are much more different to what the
story books and romance novels say.
In reality, true love is not
based on fantasy. It is not romance in the ordinary sense, but true love of the
soul. It is the love based on purity. This kind of love is severe. You start by
being severe with yourself first, by cutting away all your bad habits and
forsaking all impurities. Then you will be able to truly love others. You will love them by doing only what will
benefit them spiritually. You will not try to test their love for you by use of
tricks and fake stories; neither will you be making demands. For example some only
begin to profess their undying love after international flight tickets and foreign
currencies for big time shopping have exchanged hands! Is that true love? I
verily believe that you know the answer.
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