End of the World Blogpost(just cuz)

*Spoilers: for the movie Titanic and Romeo+Juliet*
I lost my worksheet so I don't have a quote(but if I find the worksheet, I will write another post((Part two)) including my ideas with the new found quote in mind).

Remember in Romeo and Juliet, when Tybalt dies? Juliet's father says "We are born to die." This concept just makes me think and think about how human we are. How we can be so ignorant sometimes and almost always greedy. How we can be struck dead any moment.

I saw most of Titanic for the first time yesterday, and it reminded me of this quote; it reminded me of deconstruction and the ruin of greatness. And I know that the story is being told by Rose herself, but sometimes the whole Jack/Rose love seems just as unreal as the love between Romeo/Juliet. Especially the scene where they pretend that they are flying/being free while the sun is setting and Celine Dion sings the worlds cheesiest song. True love isn't shown in moments like that, if it is shown at all it is shown when Rose rescues Jack from death the first time. She is going down a corridor filled with water (above her head) holding an axe in one hand and swinging on ceiling pipes with another (monkey bar style), or when Jack realizes that he cannot stay afloat on the headboard with Rose after the ship had sunk, and he must float beside her. It is shown when Mr. Guginheim stayed behind on the ship to allow woman and children to survive, when he could have easily used his influence to get on a safe boat and survive. It is shown when an old couple lay together, side by side, as water floods into their rooms. It is shown when a mother and her two children are trapped inside, so they lay down and she tells a beautiful tale. It is shown when one life boat returns to save the souls that have already passed on, and it is shown when the men on the life boat realise they were too late. This love that they show, is setting an example of the greatness of humans. The Selflessness that they express, is so beautiful.

This movie reminded me that everything that comes together will fall apart. And as centuries pass, I won't be anything more than a word in a history book, if at all. And all of my possesions won't be anything more than junk. Junk that turns into Garbage. It reminds me that my small troubles and my small worries mean nothing in the context of the world or even the universe. And my bed around me will become old and decaying like the titanic around the 2,223 people on that boat. And we won't be anything besides a once living civilization, like dodo birds or dinosaurs.

Once I realized this, I had come back to the world we live in. A world with wars and a world with greed. People do not understand that it won't matter in the end, when we are fossils in the ground, who had the most riches or who was in the most control of others. People don't realize that paper decays, meaning money will decay. Power will decay, and everything falls apart.

Once I realized this, I compared our world to that of Romeo and Juliet. And we have the same problems, problems of greed and problems of power. I realize that this could be the message Shakespeare was sending out. And he could not have been smarter for writing this message in the form of a love story. For people would be able to find even more sadness in it. Noone would rather watch a sad story of how the world is going to end one day and that "frays" between you and your enemy will not matter in the context of the whole, than a love story with the same message.