by A. Jae

Created on: January 17, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

Heartless, a story of one man's heart

This is the story about a man with no heart.

He wandered around the world heartless; searching for something to fill the void until one day he stumbled into a village hurt from the cold and rocky road. He didn't let anyone help himhe just wanted the things he needed to get better so he could leave and move on. Well, he passed out from the exhaustion of not having anything for his soul to hold on to. A lonely young pheasant woman took him in. Everyone started to talk behind her back, saying that she was wasting her time on a cold hearted stranger.

A week later the man woke up in her arms. He told her that he had a dream. He dreamt that he went to Heaven. He said that God told him that he can't enter through the gates of Heaven without having a heart; and you can't appreciate pure beauty and happiness without suffering loss. He told her that God sent him back to Earth with a chance to find out what love was. He looked into her eyes and saw something that he'd never seen before. Then without a second to waste, he asked the woman if she would be his wife.

For years they lived, but the emptiness was still within him. One day she told him she was with child. He felt joy to learn that he would soon have a son or daughter, but he was still empty inside. When the day came, he delivered their baby girl into the world. That was the day he learned to laugh for the first time in his life. He lifted their new daughter for his wife to see but she had died giving birth to their child. He learned that day about what hurt felt like, and the emotions that surround it.

The years went on until he was old and dying. His daughter had married and had children of her own, but she still cared for her father even through the last days of his life. On his death bed he told her that he had met God the day he met her mother and God told him that he couldn't enter through the gates of Heaven until he knew what love and loss were, and how to be truly happy. He told her that he was afraid that God would turn him away for failing to find what he had long searched to find. His daughter cried when she heard the words her father said. He told her that he never knew his feeling for her mother until it was too late and she was gone. He told his daughter that he wasn't sure if he had shown her what love is so that she could find love for herself.

She told him that when she was little, he touched her hand and lifted her up to the sky. She told him that she remembered

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