Hap's Post
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Got this from a friends' friendster post... Sort of find it meaningful...
One day, all the vices and 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... whilst Avarice entered a
sack that he ended up
breaking. And Madness continued to count: ...."
seventy nine, eighty,
eighty one..."
By this time, all the vices and 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 pitch fork.
"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 ...
Hap | 9/12/2004 11:16:00 PM
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