Love - the madness factor ! :)

"LOVE" - A simple four letter word which has a rather complicated explanation based on each individuals perspective{even after falling in love i find it hard to explain as to what exactly it is:-)}. Anyways, let me not go deep into the explanations or i might get confused!!!!!!!!!!

I have come across enormous lines and quotes which gives a little meaning or can i say a kind of explanation about this wonderful 4 letter word, some of them for example - "LOVE is Blind", "When LOVE is not MADNESS, its not Love", "LOVE - the one word that we use everyday and the one word that words cannot define" etc etc....

Wondering why am i thinking about all these now??? Actually the other day i got a mail - A story which explains why love is blind and the relationship between Love and Madness. Even though i know this is just an imaginary story and holds no reality in it, somehow i felt nice reading it and that is when all these thoughts about Love stalked me. So here is the story - (This is a forwarded mail and i am not the creator ;-))

"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 Vices and virtues were more bored than ever. Suddenly ingenious came up with an idea.."Lets play Hide and Seek" he said.

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 of them agreed.

Madness leaned against a tree and started to count "One ,Two,Three...." and as Madness counted all 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... Passion went to the center of the earth... Lie said that it would hide under a stone but instead hid at the bottom of the lake... While Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking !!!

Madness continued to count..."Seventy nine,eighty,eighty one..." By this time all the vices and virtues were hidden - except for 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 am coming, i am coming!"

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because laziness had no energy to hide. Then he found tenderness at 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 the 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 love's eyes with the 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, then you can be my guide."

And so from that day on, Love is Blind and is accompanied with Madness."