How much do the decisions we make on a daily basis impact our lives? Even little things we decide to do that may seem insignificant, or like they won't have any impact could determine how the rest of our day goes. While it may be dramatic, even choosing to walk a little faster or slower could cost us our life. Most of us know how rash, impulsive, and quickly-made decisions usually lead to some pretty nasty consequences, but none are usually as big and severe as what happens in the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The simple decisions of free will that the two love birds made, that were not carefully thought through and ill-advised eventually lead to the lovers undoing. It my not always seem like it but much of our life is controlled by free will. And the choices we make from the moment we are born, until we die is how people build their character and is a way of choosing how our lives lead on. This is shown throughout the play in many moments such as when Romeo gives in to his friends pressuring him and goes to the Capulet party, even though he has a feeling that something really terrible will happen. And when Romeo kills Tybalt it was a decision he made in his own. And even with reason to do it there was reason to not to. So that was another judgment he made based on the situation. And even when Juliet decides that she will take the potion to "die" she chooses that it's the best idea, and that it will give her a better chance of being with Romeo. She doesn't think about the effect it could have on them carefully and goes on with the poorly made decision.
             So why exactly is Romeo go ing to the party such a big, life changing decision that he made? It's because that's where he meets Juliet. It kickstarts his rushed and hurried nature and basically is the initial incident. If he didn't want to go and pushed his friends for just skipping the party he would have never met Juliet, and the whole play wou...