It is not known how this beautiful legend about the origin of feelings was born, for some unknown reason the legend is attributed to Mario Benedetti, but it was not really him who wrote it, some think it is a corrected version of a short film. story by Jorge Bucay, or perhaps Mariano Osorio.
In any case, the truth is that it began circulating about three decades ago under the name “game of hiding place between love and madness”. However, over time, she adopted the title for which she is best known: “The Legend of Feelings. “
“Fools open the paths that the wise will follow later. “- Carlo Dossi-
It is a story that takes us to the fantastic moment in which nothing had been formed and the different emotions of people begin to settle, which brings us back to the origin of feelings in a moving and very human way.
Legend has it that the origin of the feelings that somewhere on Earth knew different virtues and defects of the human being. Boredom, which was always very boring, began to yawn and already spread laziness and so on.
To prevent this from happening, madness offered everyone to do something fun: “Let’s play hide-and-seek,” he says.
The plot became interested in the subject, and curiosity immediately asked, “What is the game like for hide-and-seek?Wisdom explained it was an old joke. It was enough to cover the face and count to a thousand, while the others hid. Soon whoever told him would have to go out and get everybody.
Immediately, enthusiasm and euphoria began to leap. They loved the idea of the game, they were so happy that even the doubt they said they wanted to participate, the apathy, always kept at a distance, also expresses the intention to enter. Thus began this game, which would be the origin of the sensations.
Madness, always so crazy, offered to be the first to tell it. And it started? The truth didn’t mean to joke, because I didn’t see any sense in it. In the end, she’d be discovered. The arrogant one said the joke was very silly and he didn’t want to participate, what bothered him was that it was crazy, not her, who made the proposal.
Laziness began to run to hide, but soon got tired, then hid behind the first stone he saw, Triumph, always assiduous, chose the tallest tree and climbed into it to hide in his cup. Behind him was envy, which took advantage of the great shadow of triumph to hide.
Meanwhile, faith fled and quickly began to fly; in the astonishment of all, he ascended to heaven and hid among the clouds; no one could believe it, only faith could do these things.
Generosity, in turn, was very concerned about those who could not find hiding places, so he helped himself, so he barely managed to hide; selfishness, on the other hand, found a wonderful hiding place in a cave, but surrounded it with thorns so that no one else could enter.
The madness was very excited. He counted, counted to a thousand, opened his face and began looking for his friends, the first thing he found was laziness, which was three steps away from her, soon found the passion and desire hidden in the crater. of a volcano.
Then he found the lie. She was so lying that she wanted me to believe she was hiding underwater, but she had actually hidden in the middle of the rainbow. Madness was also in the path of oblivion, but he forgot where this track was taking, so I left it for later.
The only thing he couldn’t hide was love. With the approach of madness, he barely had time to hide behind a thicket. Madness, who was not stupid, said: “Love is so old-fashioned that it has surely gone into hiding in the middle of the rose gardens. “As the roses had thorns, madness took a fork and began to nail it. Suddenly everyone heard a cry of pain. Madness had hurt the eyes of love.
Annoyed by what happened, madness did not know what to do, the only thing that came to mind was to kneel and ask forgiveness, and he also offered to be his guide forever, as he was done with his vision. then love has been blind and madness has accompanied it.