Jaabir Posted December 11, 2003 I don’t know if this story i found on some arabic website will make sense to you y all or not, it was inspiring enough for me to translate to English just so i could share it with SOL nomads….. it goes like this…. Good and bad manners used to live together in a land called utopia in the form of regular people, one day they felt bored and wanted to play, “Creativeness” invented a game and called it hide and seek, everybody liked the idea, and before they chose someone to start the game, "Craziness" yelled “I will be the starter” none of the manners felt like confronting “Carziness” and end up in a fight, so they agreed to let him be the seeker, “Craziness” leaned on the wall closed his eyes and started counting.. 1, 2, 3, 4, …… all of the "good" and bad “manners” started taking a hiding spot. “Betrayal” was the first to find a spot, he hid himself in a pile of trash, “Innocence” was next, it took cover behind a nearby building, “Deception” told everybody he was going to to hide behind the mountain, and hid in the bottom of the lake. And so on with the rest of the good and bad manner, everybody found a hiding spot. Except “Love” who through out the count stood there on his spot, apparently indecisive and not sure where to hide, as “Craziness” was counting 95, 96, 97,,,, and in the last second, “Love” made up his mind and jumped into a near by flower basin. “Craziness” got done with the count..... opened his eyes..... and started looking around for the hiding "bad" and "good" manners. The first one to be found was “Laziness” simply because he did even bother to hide,....... “Innocence” was next to be found, everybody knew he’d be in this nearby kindergarten, then all the sudden “Deception” ,who ran out of breath, jumped out of the lake...... then the smell of trash lead “Craziness” to find “Betrayal”...... Craziness found everybody except “Love”, he looked everywhere to no avail, he got disappointed and decided to give up the search for “Love”, as he was about to call it quits, “Envy” approached him and said, “Love” is hiding in that basin of flowers, “Craziness” picked this spear shaped wooden stick and started sticking it aimlessly in the flower basin to find “Love”, then suddenly he heard someone weeping, he got closer to take a look and sure enough it was “Love” who’s been wounded by “Craziness” stick. Craziness asked, what happened to you love?. “you’ve hit me in the eyes, I cant see no more” replied love. Craziness was devastated with what he did to Love’s eyes, he wept and said. “I am so sorry love, I really didn’t mean to hurt you.. I will do anything to fix the damage I caused you” “Well there is nothing you can do that will bring me back the eyes you popped, but there is something u could do for me to help” What is that? Asked Craziness “Take my hand and be my guide” the wounded Love answered… So ever since that day.. The Blind Love was led by Craziness!!! Does this story make any sense to ya all ?? hit me with ya feed back.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaabir Posted December 11, 2003 For Carabta.. i know nothin beats the original ...... so here is the arabic version في قديم الزمان حيث لم يكن على الأرض بشر بعد .... كانت الفضائل والرذائل.. تطوف العالم معا".. وتشعر بالملل الشديد.... ذات يوم... وكحل لمشكلة الملل المستعصية... اقترح الأبداع.. لعبة.. وأسماها الأستغماية.. أو الغميمة.. أحب الجميع الفكرة... وصرخ الجنون: أريد أن أبدأ.. أريد أن أبدأ... أنا من سيغمض عينيه.. ويبدأ العدّ... وأنتم عليكم مباشرة الأختفاء.... ثم أنه اتكأ بمرفقيه..على شجرة.. وبدأ... واحد... اثنين.... ثلاثة.... وبدأت الفضائل والرذائل بالأختباء.. وأخفت الخيانة نفسها في كومة زبالة... ومضى الشوق الى باطن الأرض... الكذب قال بصوت عال: سأخفي نفسي تحت الحجارة.. ثم توجه لقعر البحيرة.. واستمر الجنون: تسعة وسبعون... ثمانون.... واحد وثمانون.. خلال ذلك أتمت كل الفضائل والرذائل تخفيها... ماعدا الحب... كعادته.. لم يكن صاحب قرار... وبالتالي لم يقرر أين يختفي.. وهذا غير مفاجيء لأحد... فنحن نعلم كم هو صعب اخفاء الحب.. تابع الجنون: خمسة وتسعون....... سبعة وتسعون.... وعندما وصل الجنون في تعداده الى: مائة ،،،،،، قفز الحب وسط أجمة من الورد.. واختفى بداخلها.. فتح الجنون عينيه.. وبدأ البحث صائحا": أنا آت اليكم.... أنا آت اليكم.... كان الكسل أول من أنكشف...لأنه لم يبذل أي جهد في إخفاء نفسه.. ثم ظهرت الرقّة المختفية في القمر... وبعدها.. خرج الكذب من قاع البحيرة مقطوع النفس ... !! واشار على الشوق ان يرجع من باطن الأرض... وجدهم الجنون جميعا".. واحدا بعد الآخر.... ماعدا الحب... كاد يصاب بالأحباط والبأس.. في بحثه عن الحب... الى ان اقترب منه الحسد ،،، وهمس في أذنه: الحب مختف في شجيرة الورد... التقط الجنون شوكة خشبية أشبه بالرمح.. وبدأ في طعن شجيرة الورد بشكل طائش ،،،،،، ليخرج منها الحب . ولم يتوقف الا عندما سمع صوت بكاء يمزق القلوب... ظهر الحب.. وهو يحجب عينيه بيديه.. والدم يقطر من بين أصابعه... صاح الجنون نادما": يا الهي ماذا فعلت؟.. ماذا أفعل كي أصلح غلطتي بعد أن أفقدتك البصر ؟... أجابه الحب: لن تستطيع إعادة النظر لي... لكن لازال هناك ماتستطيع فعله لأجلي... كن دليلي ... وهذا ماحصل من يومها.... يمضي الحب الأعمى... يقوده الجنون !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! مع خالص حبي وتحياتي ، Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
7_steps_2_Heaven Posted December 11, 2003 question marks? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
underdog Posted December 11, 2003 Ok, thats a sad story. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Simple Woman Posted December 14, 2003 ** sigh ** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
