Should the opinions of others affect our own choices or destinies?
Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. This is a widely, well known quote by John Maxwell that portrays the importance of life choices. People in your life such as peers, parents, coaches or teachers can have a positive or negative affect on your decision making processes. This should be considered as an affirmative and supportive thing in everybody's life that will help guide them to the correct choice. The oppositions and opinions of others should affect our own decision making processes and the possible routes of our destiny. This is comparable to the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and the opinions Friar Lawrence held about them getting married and other stories such as “Pyramus and Thisbe” and “If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones”.
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His opinion matters to most of the characters except when applied to the topic of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. He attempted to warm them of the troubles their love may hold in the future. “These violent delights have violent ends And in triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives s tardy as too slow.” (Shakespeare 418). The two lovers decided not to let his opposition faze them and had him marry them at once, along with the help of the Nurse. If the couple would have taken what Friar Lawrence stated, then the outcome of their love would have possibly been much different. This is why other’s opinions should affect and revise the choices you plan to make, because it will only better the