What is the most embarrassing thing that you have ever done?
But have no regrets about having done it?
‘What Have I done now,’ a hero asks?
You are probably thinking of your youth and failed attempts to awaken the interest of a hoped-for lover.
Relax. It gets worse. Imagine that happening to you in your seventies, or eighties, even.
And then, in the other scenario, your attempts at attracting the object of your desire are successful. How do you tell people? What do you tell people?
Do you say, ‘I have fallen in love at the age of x years,’ where x is a number greater than 75? It sounds too absurd.
‘There is someone in my life who I’d like you to get to know.’
How mealy-mouthed is that!
Well, I have a friend challenged with this problem – how to come out in one’s twilight years and explain that overpowering emotion, called love. If you have any ideas I could pass on, please let me know.
Do crossed wires in old age make you unfit for purpose – a danger to everyone?
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