Singleness made in Berlin - #12. How would you deal with a nearly impossible love story?

Amor vincit omnia, they have been saying for some time now. 

Like, for the last 2,000 years, as Latin poet Virgil once wrote something similar between roughly 44 and 38 BC and the expression apparently struck a chord with many people for the centuries to come:

Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori 

("Love conquers all; let us all yield to love!")

Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 BC-19 BC]

Over the centuries, everything has changed so many times, from how most kingdoms and countries looked and look like to religions, from social constructions and political environments to the life expectancy for most people and not only for the super wealthy ones, from the ways of living to the belief systems and the figures of speech that shape our mind and keep creating the world we live in. 

[Love against all odds: Zero and Agatha in

Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)]

And yet we still like to believe that love can conquer all and that two individuals, if they really mean it, can beat all odds and overcome every obstacle and stay together, despite no matter which kind of social, economic and cultural gaps. 

Movies, love songs, theater plays, all sort of meme are there to make us believe that yes, it doesn't matter how crazy a love story can sound, it could work out eventually.

However...

What if a friend of yours would come to you and tell you that type of almost impossible love story? Which kind of advice would you give them and would you be happy for them?

Would you still be prone to believe that love can conquer all also when we are talking about real life?

This one is for Jan, that makes his friends feel like they were kings and queens.

Tags: Amor vincit omnia, Impossible love stories, Expectations about relationships

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