A long time ago, before the world was created and
humans set foot on it for the first time, and virtues floated around and were
bored, not knowing what to do. One day, all the virtues were gathered together
and were more bored than ever. Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea:
"Let's play hide and seek!"
All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness
shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!" And since nobody was
crazy enough to want to seek Madness, all the others agreed. Madness leaned
against a tree and started to count: "One, two, three..." As Madness
counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.
Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon. Treason
hid in a pile of garbage. Fondness curled up between the clouds and Passion
went to the centre of the earth. Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but
hid at the bottom of the lake. While Avarice entered a sack that he ended up
breaking.
And Madness continued to count: .... "Seventy-nine,
eighty, eighty-one..." By this time, all the virtues were already hidden -
except Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide. And
this should not surprise us because we all know how difficult it is to hide
Love.
Madness: "...ninety-five, ninety-six,
ninety-seven..." Just when Madness got to one hundred, Love jumped into a
rose bush where he hid. And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm
coming, I'm coming!"
As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to
be found, because Laziness had no energy to hide. Then he spotted Tenderness in
the horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the centre
of the earth. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love. Madness was
getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness:
"You only need to find Love and Love is hiding in the rose bush." Madness
grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rosebush. Madness stabbed
and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop. Love appeared from the
rose bush, covering his face with his hands. Between his fingers ran two
trickles of blood from his eyes.
Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out
Love's eyes with a pitchfork. "What have I done? What have I done?"
Madness shouted. "I have left you blind! How can I repair it?" And
Love answered: "You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something
for me, you can be my guide."
And so it came about that from that day on, Love is
blind and is always accompanied by Madness. Hahahahahahahaha
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