Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Love and Madness

Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 3:44pm


(I ran across this cute parable which is definitely a good keeper on the struggle to push us towards frightening change in which the world called madness...)


A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for

the first time, virtues and vices floated around and were bored, not

knowing what to do. 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 center 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. Sorrow went into a depression of a volcano.


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 center 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 rose bush.

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 your vision?"


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.



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