Romeo & Juliet can teach us many life lessons, but lessons in books cannot change your life unless you make the change. Romeo & Juliet can teach us three life lessons. The first being: don’t make rash decisions. The second lesson is to think through decisions. The third is that young love or infatuation is not a good reason to kill you self over.

The first life lesson in Romeo & Juliet is that you should not make rash, quick decisions, rash decisions usually only lead to trouble. An example would be when Romeo wanted to kill himself because he was banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. “Calling death banishment is death mistermed. Calling death “banishment” Thou cuttst my head off with a golden axe & smiling upon the stroke that murders me.”

The next lesson in Romeo & Juliet is to consider possible reproductions & outcomes. Throughout the play of Romeo & Juliet many characters make decisions that were obviously not thought through. Such as when the Friar gave Juliet the vial that contained the drug to put her in a death like coma. He did not anticipate that Romeo would not receive the letter that said Juliet was in a coma and not dead. This miscommunication causes the death of 3 people.

The third is that suicide is should not be an option for young love such as Romeo & Juliet’s. Romeo and Juliet’s love was really infatuation, love takes time to build. Romeo and Juliet only knew each other for 5 days which is not enough time for anyone to fall in love. It’s a nice plot for a play but not for real life. After Romeo kills himself with poison Juliet kills herself with a dagger “This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die“, which is not the best answer to her problems.

Romeo and Juliet can teach us many valuable life lessons. The lessons in Romeo and Juliet are mainly that you should not make rash decisions, you should think through most decisions, and that young love does not justify suicide. My argument was that life lessons can be learned through reading. The life lessons learned must be applied to a person’s life to get anything out of the lessons learned.