*Why Love is Blind !!!*

tanzeela · #1 Saturday, December 09, 2006

*A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on
it for
the first time, virtues and
vices wandered bored, not knowing what to do. One day, they were all
gathered and bored more than
ever when Ingenious had an idea: Why don't we play hide and seek?

All of them liked the idea, and immediately the Madness shouted: I want
to
count, I want to count and
since no one else was crazy about seeking Madness, Madness leaned on a
tree
and started to count, 1, 2,
3.

And as Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding. Tenderness
hung
on the horn of the moon; Treason in a pile of garbage; Fondness curled
up
between the clouds; Lie said he would hide under a stone but he lied
and hid
at the bottom of the lake; Passion went to the center of the earth;
Avarice
entered a sack
that he ended up breaking. And Madness continued to count, 79, 80, 81,
82.
All the vices and virtues were already hidden by then, except for Love,
whom
as undecided as he is, did not know where to hide. And this should not
surprise us because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.

And Madness was already at 95, 96, 97. And just at the moment when she
arrived at hundred, Love jumped into a rosebush and there he hid out.

And Madness shouted "I'm coming! I'm coming!" and as she turned, the
first
one she saw was Laziness, thrown to her feet because he didn't have any
energy to hide. Then she saw Tenderness in the horn of the Moon, and
Lie at
the bottom of the lake, and Passion in the center of the earth...

Discovering them one by one, finding all of them but one. Madness was
getting desperate, unable to find the

last missing one, until Envy, envious for not having been discovered,
whispered to Madness:

"You are lacking Love, and he is hiding in the rosebush." And Madness
took a
wooden pitchfork, and stabbed at the rosebush, and stabbed and stabbed,
till
a heartbreaking shout made her stop. And, after the shout, Love came
out
covering his face with his hands, and from between his fingers run two
threads of blood, out of his eyes. Madness anxious to find Love had
taken
out Love's eyes with the pitchfork. "What have I done? What have I
done?"
she shouted, "I have left you blind! How can I repair it?" And Love
answered, "You can't restore my eyes. But if you want to do something
for
me, you could be my guide."

From that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness.

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