They Told Us that Our Love Could Never Last (2022) Σχέδιο από Edwin Loftus

This title led me to think of a dozen or more romantic ballads from the 1950s, particularly Nat King Cole singing "They try to tell us we're too young."
But that wasn't what I was thinking of when the image was taking place. I was rememberingthe1950s in America when in some states people of African and European ancestry, (called "Black" and "White,") weren't allowed to get married. I grew up in a different state where I recall a Black and White couple in the congregation of the church I was raised in and many other interracial couples and marriages. Part of the beauty of the system I was raised in is that, if you didn't like the laws of one state, you could move to one with laws you liked better. But there were some people that didn't like this at all. They just kept it to themselves or if they mentioned it, you just told them they were wrong, if that's what you thought. It is more along these lines that I was thinking.
Obviously, the male in this image is a Fairy (the not so tiny and pretty kind). The female is a human of average good looks, and (probably because they have seen beyond each other's physical-aesthetic differences), they have fallen in love. Unfortunately, the boy's parents are aghast at the idea of him marrying someone so strange looking and are set against their love. The girl's parents have a similar reaction, (though why I cannot say).
And so, we see them at the crestfallen moment when they too have come to grips with the realization that there is no place in this world for their love. Both being of practical minds, they are not going to do anything so foolish as to end it all. this story is tragic, but not that tragic .... (at least I hope it isn't). They will part and weep and wail. And eventually they'll meet new loves, and both live happily, if somewhat with a nostalgic twinge of sorrow at what might have been.
And that is what this image came to mean to me. In youth we are compelled by mortality to make many choices that will shape our lives before we've had a chance to learn enough about this world to make those choices wisely. Love may be eternal, but we are not and in our too brief stay in this life, we change, and things don't always look the same to us as that happens.
So, there is another side to this image. It could be true love denied. Or it could be ill-fated love and the tragedy it brings, avoided by the wisdom of those that love this pair.
The problem is, I'm in my 70s, I made this image, and yet, I'm not quite sure. my thinking changes back and forth like the rising and falling tides.

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