In a day we make a wide range of decisions, some seem small and some seem big, but they all impact our destiny. There are many difficult choices we must make in our lives. Which college to go to? Who to marry? How we want to exist. When we make our decision, we consider ourselves and those we love and try to do the right thing, regardless of how human we are and so sometimes we make the wrong choice. Sometimes we are pressured by irrational emotions, society, or a glimmer of gratitude and wealth. Sometimes we make a choice that seems good but has disastrous results. Every character in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wrong path at some point and leads us to a tragic end. This goes back to one of the main themes of Romeo and Juliet; that despite our best intentions, we don't always know the best. Romeo killed Tybalt to avenge the death of his friend Mercutio and to defend his family's honor, but he failed to consider the chain reaction of anguish that this hasty decision would cause. After his cold sword takes Tybalt's last breath, he exclaims "O, I am a fool of fortune", indicating that Romeo believed that Tybalt's death was written in the stars and that he was only follow fate, so the murder was justifiable in that sense. Mercutio was Romeo's best friend, so his anger towards Tybalt is more than understandable, but killing someone always makes things harder. The prince banishes Romeo to Mantua, far from the wall of love in Verona, which turns the lives of almost every character in the play upside down. The repercussions of this decision extend to the very last scene of the play when we learn that Lady Montague, Romeo's mother, has died, Romeo's father explains that "The sorrow of my son's exile took his breath away (5.3.219) ...... middle of paper ...... At first, he resists Romeo's call for a bottle marked with an money and reminds him of the poverty in which he lives, the more his morals become lax until finally he says: “My poverty, but not my consented will (5.1.79). » Even though the apothecary knows that what he is doing is wrong and will lead to the death of others, he does it for a silver lining and is therefore just as blinded as the other characters. The main message of Romeo and Juliet is that we may mean well, but people and mistakes are what we do best. You can take this message cynically or positively. You can look at things from the perspective that we are all blind and groping toward death, or you can see that the future is unpredictable, so we might as well live our lives to the fullest now. Shakespeare understood this and even if Romeo and Juliet died young, they died in love