Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most tragic impossible love story ever told: “Two households, both alike in dignity, (…) From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; whole misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”. Cinema, music, literature… all forms of art has illustrated a thousand times the stories of impossible love. Unfortunately, it is not necessary to resort to fiction to find them. You just have to look around you: the world is full of lovers whose circumstances do not allow them to drift freely for what they feel.

Since the world began, the differences between humans have existed. We all are of different races, of different colours, of different social status, etc. And these differences are, precisely, those which destroy the hearts of two lovers that love each other like crazy. Otherwise, who does not know or has not heard in any occasion about the story of an impossible love because the girl was a gypsy and the boy a bumpkin? Or because the boy was black and the girl, white… It also happens when one belongs to a high sphere of society, and the other has a humble origin. But all of this should not be taken into account because if the love is real, the differences between lovers cease to exist.

What about the age? Can the love between two people with a big age difference produce fruit? Many people think that a lapse of 20 years is too much of a difference. If a girl of 20 is in love with a man of 40, people always think the worst. Her parents especially are the ones who strongly oppose this kind of relationship. But, what’s the problem? Does love need standards? When one falls in love, one does not choose whom, neither when, nor how … It just happens!

Sometimes the religion is also a problem. She, a Muslim, of a very traditional family, falls in love with a Christian. But how could it happen?! Her parents will never accept that she marries with a non-Muslim man, although the love they profess for each other is much stronger than their own religion. True love knows no boundaries.

“From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you, the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” Romeo and Juliet die because of their impossible love. It was a fatal outcome for a couple whose love seemed too great for everybody.

If you’ve ever fallen in love, you should know how much force this sentiment that ignores races, ages, cultures or religions has. Maybe because of that people use to say that love is blind… Are you in love? Surprise your partner with a trip to Italy. Rent some fine Milan apartments and give free rein to your love. And remember, impossible love doesn’t exist!