Love And Lust In Romeo And Juliet

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“Love is not just a verb” Kendrick Lamar. This verse in the song Poetic Justice was his way to say what love is and what is not. Love could be confused for lust. Lust for the appearance attraction. Many films and stories portray this type of love. In high school I was assigned to read the story of Romeo and Juliet. This story is a great example of the types of love. Were Romeo and Juliet driven by true love or lust? To start we would have to figure out which type of love if any in the story. Some may say that they lusted over each other, and didn’t love each other. The sexual desire was not the case, it is merely inexperience and immature. There are many instances of love in the story.

Firstly, Romeo was just another confused teen; he doesn’t …show more content…

Both Romeo and Juliet were in love with the idea of love, rather than each other.
One relationship I don’t like talking about or even revisiting would be my last one. But I do feel that there was love involved. A relationship at one time for me it was true love. But analyzing for some time after we broke up, I figured out that it was not real true love.
This relationship took place in my senior year of high school and after some time after graduation. I was introduce to this girl that my close friend had set me up with. We were both ‘the shy at first but crazy after getting to know me’ type. I had no real intentions of being in a real relationship, especially, not with her cause she lived in a different state. But for the time she was the only fun to talk to. I’m not much of a talker before or now even. But to this girl we could talk the stupidest things and still have good …show more content…

I was with my family and our car was crushed like an accordion. While at hospital I sent a text and let her know what had happen. I didn’t get reply back for like hour and half. Which was alright but she sent a simple ‘oh’. That really made me upset. After being cleared to leave the hospital. I had a long talk with a close friend and how I should take care of this in my relationship. The advice to me was to step away and let her be. So I took the advice and let her go. I knew this wasn’t going to sit right for me but inside I want her to be

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