Attempted translation – The Fable of emotions – “Anonymous”

It is said that one day, somewhere in Earth, all human emotions and virtues got together.

When boredom had yawned for a third time, insanity, as crazy as always, proposed: Shall we play a game of hide and seek? Intrigue raised an eyebrow and curiosity could not contain herself and asked: Hide and seek? How do we play that?

It’s a game – explained insanity – where I put my hands on my face and I count until one million while you hide yourselves; and when I finish counting, the first one of you that I find will take my place and we can continue playing.

Enthusiasm started dancing with euphoria, happiness jumped so much that it ended up convincing doubt and apathy who was usually never interested in anything. But not all were willing to participate. Truth preferred not to hide… What for? In the end you always come to me. Arrogance thought that it was a stupid game (in reality it was tearing him apart that he hadn’t come up with the idea first) and cowardice preferred not to risk anything…

“one, two, three…”, insanity started counting.

The first to hide was laziness, who, as always just let himself fall on the first stone on the way.

Envy hid behind the shadow of triumph, who with his own strength had succeeded in reaching the top of the highest tree. Generosity couldn’t find a place to hide, every place that she found seemed perfect for one of her friends… A crystal lake? (Ideal for beauty). The crack of a tree trunk? (Perfect for timidity). The flight of the butterfly? (The best place for voluptuousness). The gust of a wind? (Excellent for freedom). Generosity ended up hiding in a sun ray. On the other hand, Egoism immediately found the best place to hide, in air, since it was so comfortable... but only for him. Lie hid at the bottom of the ocean (she was actually hiding behind the rainbow) and passion and wish hid at the center of volcanoes. Forgetfulness… I forget where she hid… but that is not important.

When insanity had counted until 999999, love had still not found a place to hide, since all the places were full… she finally found a rosebush and with a shudder, she decided to hide between its flowers.

One million! Shouted insanity and started to search for the others… She first found laziness three steps away from her behind a stone. And passion and wish were sitting in the vibrations of the volcanoes. By accident she found envy and of course, she could deduce where triumph was hiding. She didn't have to look for egoism. He came running out of his hiding place on his own which was the nest of wasps. Having walked a lot, insanity felt thirsty, got closer to the lake and found beauty, and it was a lot easier to find doubt who was sitting on a wall since she couldn’t decide where to hide. Thus she found all of them, talent in fresh grass; anxiousness in an obscure cave, lie behind the rainbow (lie, of course was at the bottom of the ocean) all until forgetfulness... who had forgotten that they were playing hide and seek... but insanity could not find love...

She looked for her behind each tree, below each stream of the planet, above every mountain and when she had almost lost hope, she saw a rose bush and roses… with a hairpin she moved the branches until she heard a painful cry… the thorns had wounded the eyes of love… insanity didn’t know what to do to apologize, she cried, she begged, she asked for forgiveness and she promised to be her guide...

Since then… since the first time the game of hide and seek was played in the world…

Love has been blind and insanity always follows her.