Book love and real life love

There are so many romantic novels out there, till today I still haven't read Romeo and Juliet. I have seen the play many times, but I never paid attention. Anyone would know it has everything to do with the passion in love. So many books and even movies like Titanic, I can't tell if it's supposed to be a desperately sad movie or a romance movie, a bit of both.

Have you ever loved to that level before? The degree to which the characters in the book expressed their love for each other. The passion, the drama, the lengths each one will go to show love.

For a person to say I'll die for you is quite something. But I imagine it's possible because people have been doing that for thousands of years. People have been dying for others. As a matter of fact, people have been dying for people they don't even know. Don't take your mind too far back in history, don't even consider Jesus first, a typical soldier going into battle, knowing that his life is about to end and it's all because of his own willingness to die for his nation. I couldn't imagine wanting to die for something. I prefer to live for something. Maybe I'm selfish or I'm just being your average person, afraid of losing my own life.

But for some people, they are ready to take the fatal bullet for the one they love. Perhaps one day I might get to that level of passion but I haven't experienced that before.

But something I would like to bring up. Some girls and I say this because I talk to so many during girls' night events with my friends. Some girls read these love novels and mistakenly assume that's how their relationship is supposed to be. They end up with a guy and before they met the guy, they had raised their expectations so high that no matter what this guy does, he's never enough. It's a downside to believing too much in romantic novels and comparing people.

They actually want the Romeo Juliet drama when the guy just wants a normal thing that ends in a normal agreement to marry and a normal family. Two people are on different wavelengths.

It's good to have passion but I think that for the most part, real life love is not like romantic novel love. Some real life love may be more dramatic or passionate but the average is not.

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