Short story: Love can be found at any age, but we do need to have the heart for it too

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The old man, of this story, had led a colourful life, but it had slowed down quite a bit, as he got older. Old Jack Joplin, had never married, but he had had a few opportunities, but had never opened their doors to himself. Every time that he had come close to marrying a lady, he had had this same recurring dream, where he had come to a house, with a key in his hand to get into it, but the key never fit the lock, and so he was locked out of that house. He had taken this to mean that he should not go ahead with that marriage, and so he hadn't done so. When Jack was 85, he entered a nursing home, met a lady there, and married her, after only a few months of meeting her. He was feeling secure in himself, in this home, and knew that he could never be locked out of this place by anyone. The previous non-marriages were largely due to his own insecurities about giving up part of himself for someone else, and really he wanted to keep his own house locked up even to himself, yet alone, to open it to anyone else. Jack was a private man, but here in the nursing home, there was little, or no, privacy at times, and so at last, he had adjusted his ways, and the old fox learnt a new way, and married his new love, with all the love, that he had pent up inside of him from before, and from so many near misses before too. Sometimes, we can hold ourselves off from love, but it will usually find us in the end, in one way, or another, as it did old Jack, here too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Love is ever ready to find us, but are we ever ready to find it?