Romeo and Juliet

So despite this rainy weather and cooping in my room, I've been watching movies and more movies. Hahah believe it or not, I was watching Romeo and Juliet 1996, the one with Leonardo De Caprio inside. Though I missed the recent one, there was another one I think last year? I guess the 1996 one is a big favourite. 

I used to think that Romeo and Juliet was just one of Shakespeare's great hits, a stupid romance where two star-crossed lovers end up in tragedy due to miscommunication. I was thinking, how dumb, what are star-crossed lovers even? Everything seemed too dramatic and its just popular cause its by Shakespeare. And of course since it was one of the books I did for literature in secondary school, I hated it even more. 

Just now while watching the show, I remembered reading somewhere there are many great things in life. And one of the main few is to love and be loved. In the story, I guess romeo and juliet could be termed as what modern day would say as "hopeless romantics". I couldn't help but think whether its good and bad? They yearned for true love, love to them was everything. Romeo was at first all depressed and at loss, life was meaningless when he only thought of rosaline. In these days, many would have called him "Stupid", "Useless" to be so sad over "just a girl". For romeo and juliet, they had "love at first sight" and of course I hate how the word "love" is used so easily. what was love to them? yet, their love was so great they would do anything. Was this stupid? childish? or was it just brave? Is having love enough, so much so that you don't need anything else? They died in the end but found the loves of their lives, so was their deaths in vain? 

Arghhh I guess I am just thinking too much again.