Love What’s Soon Going to Be in Short Supply

In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote, and I paraphrase, “Love that which you’ll soon be leaving.”

It sounds like he was referring to our very lives.  (Aren’t we all leaving them?)  But, according to experts, he was talking about youth.  Enjoy thy youth, because you’re not going to have it forever.

The painting here brings to mind the same message, only it might extend to climate change, and the idea that a beautiful planet won’t be a part of our lives too much longer.

It’s tragic.