Why Love Is Blind
Got this from somewhere. Interesting. That's basically the reason why I put it up here.
Why Love is Blind
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 were bored more than ever when Ingenious had an idea: "Why don't we play hide and seek?" And all of them liked the idea, and immediately the mad Madness, shouted: "I want to count, I want to count" and since no one else was crazy enough to seek for 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 she 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 he arrived at hundred, Love jumped into a rosebush and there she hid herself.
Madness shouted "I'm coming! I'm coming!" and as he turned, the first one he saw was Laziness, thrown to his feet because he didn't have any energy to hide. Then he saw Tenderness in the horn of the Moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake, 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 at Love for not having been discovered, whispered to Madness: "You are lacking Love, and she is hiding in the rosebush."
Madness took a wooden pitchfork, and stabbed at the rosebush, and stabbed and stabbed, till a heartbreaking shout made him stop.
After the shout, Love came out covering her face with her hands, and from between her fingers run two threads of blood, out of her eyes. Madness, who was anxious to find Love, had taken out Love's eyes with the pitchfork.
"What have I done?, what have I done?" he shouted. "I have left you blind!"
"How can I repair it?"
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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Why Love is Blind
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 were bored more than ever when Ingenious had an idea: "Why don't we play hide and seek?" And all of them liked the idea, and immediately the mad Madness, shouted: "I want to count, I want to count" and since no one else was crazy enough to seek for 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 she 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 he arrived at hundred, Love jumped into a rosebush and there she hid herself.
Madness shouted "I'm coming! I'm coming!" and as he turned, the first one he saw was Laziness, thrown to his feet because he didn't have any energy to hide. Then he saw Tenderness in the horn of the Moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake, 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 at Love for not having been discovered, whispered to Madness: "You are lacking Love, and she is hiding in the rosebush."
Madness took a wooden pitchfork, and stabbed at the rosebush, and stabbed and stabbed, till a heartbreaking shout made him stop.
After the shout, Love came out covering her face with her hands, and from between her fingers run two threads of blood, out of her eyes. Madness, who was anxious to find Love, had taken out Love's eyes with the pitchfork.
"What have I done?, what have I done?" he shouted. "I have left you blind!"
"How can I repair it?"
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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