Short stories: John finds an unexpected source of income, in his old age

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John had a friend and a mentor named Tony Smithers, who he used to ring up over the phone to chew matters over with him, about certain experiences that he had had, and also about certain problems that he was currently experiencing within his life too. And so, John rang Tony one night, and he asked him why he, Tony, was having so much troubling obtaining employment. Tony said to John, “Well John, I am old like you, and you need to hear this from a younger fresher perspective. I will let you talk to my daughter, Ronella, for a while.” Tony put Ronella on the phone then. “Hi John”, she said. “Sometimes, the rational approach is the wrong approach. You need to think irrationally, or outside of the staidness of rationality.” “It’s not what you think about things sometimes what works. It’s more about how you feel. Trust comes from feeling, not from thinking.” “The hum of life, requires you to hum your own tune, within the song, not to try to play the tune, with somebody else’s hum inside of you.” “The victim must become the hero.” John said thanks to Ronella, as he wondered how he could finally become a hero in his own life, at 64 years of age. Then he put the phone down, and he realised that he already was such. Recently, he had written a book of his own poems, and he even had had it published, but he was too shy to promote it very much. He had only sold one copy to his brother. The very next day though, John went down to his local bookshop, and he asked them if he could put one of his books, in their window. They sold like hotcakes, and John, became at last the hero of his own life. The right person can always help us like this, when we are ready to receive such help No one person can know it all, or be perfect in every aspect of life, can they? If we ask a guide for advice, they can only guide us in areas that they themselves know about, and not in other areas outside of their own knowledgeable experienced wisdom pool. Everyone has access to all knowledge, but wisdom is built on top of knowledge, and anchored into experienced insights within you through your own experiences with love. The name of John's book of poetry was: "Love comes of Age in you, when you let it not age in yourself." Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com. This is John, writing one of his poems, in his journal