Romeo and Juliet

I started reading Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and I had to read act 1, scene 1 twice to barely comprehend on what the chapter was about. The most difficult thing about reading Romeo and Juliet is the language. We're barely used to the language because we never use that kind of language. They might have in the old days, but now we're in the modern world, where everything is abbreviated or shortened. Meanwhile, Shakespeare wrote a tragic love story that we barely understand.

One of the main themes, as we all know, is love. This story is one of the most tragic love stories of all time. It's about 2 people who fall in love, but fate plays with their love, and they end up dying. And it all has to do with the hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. At first Juliet Capulet was suppose to marry County Paris,a handsome guy that she barely knows, and spend the rest of her life with him. Well, that's what her mother, Lady Capulet says.

Lady Capulet has a different perspective on love. I think what love means to her, is that she thinks it's not important to establish a deep connection with the person that later on, will marry. I think, to her love is oh, here's this handsome guy, let's get married! I don't really think she knows what love really is. That's how her mother taught her, and now she's telling Juliet to do the same thing.

Meanwhile, Romeo himself will be in love with anyone who looks gorgeous, for example, Roseline, and not see the beauty within all that beauty on the outside. Until he sees Juliet. When he sees Juliet I think that's the point where he realize that Roseline will never love him the way he does for her. And the point when he realizes that his love for Roseline was never real. He thinks he loves her because of her beauty. I mean, I kind of see his point, because I would the same thing, too. I would fall in love with anyone who looks handsome, I mean wouldn't anyone?

And I don't think that he was really in love with Roseline. There is so many perspectives of love that is hard to keep track of. The bottom line is that many people have their definition of love, and no can actually define what love actually is, because it's physically impossible to do so. I think what William Shakespeare is trying to do is that there are different kinds of love, and all of them have different endings. I mean, some of them cane be what you dreamed of, and sometimes it could end in a tragedy, like these two star-crossed lovers.

There are so many questions unanswered, though. How did the Montagues and the Capulets hate each other in the first place anyway? And when Romeo met Juliet, they automatically fall in love, and the next day, they got married, and on the third day they killed themselves. How on earth did that happen all in three days? I figured it would be, at least, a week. Why did Shakespeare write it so quickly? and many, many more questions are left unanswered. What are your thoughts? 

Invisible by:Skylar Grey

I love this song, well, first of all, it's an amazing song and I would recommend everyone to hear this song, not only it gives a message, but it's amazing in general.  I first started listening to this when I was feeling depressed, I actually have to give credit to my brother who recommended this song. Now I can't stop listening to it nonstop, even when I'm not depressed. This song actually made me feel a lot better. It's a song who's lyrics are not only relateable, but it's true for me.

"I take these pills to make me thin, I dye my hair, and cut my skin.I tried everything to make them see me, even when I set myself on fire, why does I always feel invisible.:" This part of the song really sticks out to me because everyone is always doing something to change themselves drastically, and it won't matter to them if they get hurt in the process, all they care about is the result. And the last line, "but why do I always feel like invisible" I can totally relate to that, because on some days I feel, like why doesn't anybody notice me, I mean I'm a human being, too.

And the music video isn't really bad either, even though it doesn't show people who feel left out. The reason I love this song is because people could love this song and realize what their life is like right now, like are you happy? Or are you always being left out in conversations with your "friends"? Or maybe you talk to your friends, but they make fun of you for like, your name or something, or gave you like a nickname that's really frustrating?

There are all kinds of reasons for loving this song for each and one of you, so if you're feeling sad or mad or something, I recommend you all to listen to this song. This is one of my top favorite songs, but I think it will be yours too if you watch this right now on YouTube.

If you want to listen to this song, which I highly recommend, then click here 

Across the Universe

This story was very fascinating to me (I had just finished it), and the ending had caught me me by surprise, and it was a bit confusing, too. I had never read a book with so many twists and turns in it. It was about mostly about a girl who was frozen, and was supposed to be frozen until she was in anew planet, named Centauri Earth. I really liked how there were two narratives instead of one, because it was a nice change of pace.

Her name was Amy,and very soon, she found a person, that was the only person that didn't tell her lies, like where she is right now, and how she wasn't supposed to be alive right now, and how she was 'reanimated' into this life. This story really got me thinking. Is everybody who they say they are? Or, like Elder, Amy's friend, found out the truth, and he was basically nothing, because everything he knew was a lie, like he found out that they're never going to Centauri Earth, and everybody on the ship was drugged into believing that they were on their way to a peaceful life.

Those people on the ship was representing the people that was affected by the lies that was told to them, and the person who told the lies, his name was Eldest, didn't know the consequences and the actions that would happen all around him. He ended up dying at the end of the book, and a strange way, too. Elder, who was like a son to Eldest, thought that he was a tyrannical dictator that should be stopped almost immediately, as soon as he found out the whole truth.

 He wasn't the only one, though. Elder's best friend, besides Amy, Harley, was spying in on them, and when he realized that he was never getting off the ship, he decided to kill himself, because he thought that death would be better than living a whole life full of lies. It shows to me that anything could happen if you tell a single lie, it could end up in a dire consequence for another person.

This whole story was based on a murder that happened a million years ago, and they thought that person was dead, but as it turns out, he's not dead, and he was the one who had been feeding people the lies, and they believed him. That ended up in a mass suicide. Well, that's what you get for lying. With only one little white lie, you could change someone's life forever, like that person could end up killing themselves, or end up dazed, as if you've been woken up and you can see the world through another person's eyes.

That's why I loved this book, it had taught me a valuable lesson. And I hope it will teach you a valuable lesson too.