When Love met Madness

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WHEN LOVE MET MADNESS
(forwarded email)

This ain’t Neil Gaiman, but it made me chuckle.

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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? 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 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 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 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 took 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.


*** so true...