Prompt 1, Act 1, Scene 1, Blinded Romeo

Sometimes in life, love for other people for things can shroud our vision of other opportunities or perhaps better option for love and happiness. Romeo experiences this as he is in love with another woman before meeting Juliet: "Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, should without eyes see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine?-O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!" (21). In this passage, Romeo describes how his love will never be stirred and how his feelings will never change for the woman he loves, even though this does happen not too much later in the story. I can relate to this as at the beginning of the year I had a very similar experience with a girl at this very school. I'm not afraid to admit it, my view was clouded by this one girl and I could not see the fact that there were other people trying to make friends and be friendly with me at the beginning of the year. Because of my blindness, I pushed these friendly people away in my lust to secure a relationship with this girl, and missed out on several possibly very good friends. Romeo does find his way out of being so passionately in love as I did eventually myself, but I will forever live with the regret that I fell into a position of such ignorance at one point and I feel like I totally understand what Romeo feels like in this situation.