Shakespearean Love

I'm out of town right now working on family affairs. It's hard and challenging in some respects...But that's life. Anyways, a film student friend of mine asked me an interesting question the other day. He wanted to know if I thought that Romeo and Juliet's love would have lasted had they not committed suicide (poor babies). And I immediately answered "Hell no." Are you kidding me? The intensity of their love was solely predicated on the fact that it could never last too long. I mean all of the pulled heart strings and moonlight poetry and heart draining glances. Who could keep that up for decades on end?

I was in a sarcastic mood. That's why I answered as such. Needless to say my friend got a good laugh out of it.