the scent of your cologne fills the air
You enter my world and fill me with joy
No me dejes desamparada hoy.
sLowly but quickly times flies by
its getting to the time where we say goodbye.
its a love that will never fade, not die.
The Girl With the beautiful Voice
Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl named Lorelei whom had a beautiful voice. Lorelei lived in the village of Chaka, located in the high mountains Of Colombia.
Lorelei was born in the early season of summer, making her a very special baby. She was no normal girl, Lorelei was born with the power to heal anything she touches and she was born with a beautiful voice. Being only 15 years old, she had healed so many people from her village. She was so busy that she hardly had any free time to be a normal teenager.
A couple of months later she decided to leave her village and go explore the world on which she lived on. She explored from Italy, France, Greece, Swiss, and even Belgium.
Lorelei stayed in Belgium to live there. Through out the five years in which she lived there she explored every mountain, every village, sang threw out the country. At one stop that she made a young man by the name of Maurizio fell completely in love with Lorelei’s voice to an extreme in which he wanted to marry her. She did not know what to do when Maurizio proposed to her. Her words were “I’m sorry but I have no clue in what I should do”. That didn’t change his mind he was still certain to marry her.
Lorelei was later faced with the challenge of healing an old man who was really sick. Lorelei had to heal him for the reason that if she did not she wouldnt be able to go back to her hometown. A couple of days after, the old man was healed and the village thanked Lorelei with a great feast.
Lorelei eventually returned to her hometown village Chaka. The night that she arrived, while eating dinner with her family; her mother brought up the conversation of marriage. Lorelei astonished by the fact that her mother was pressuring her to get married, grabbed all belongings and left the house. She stopped in the woods and just sat there and cried, cried of anger, and cried of loneliness.At that moment of weakness she heard something beautiful in the distant woods. She walked and walked and followed the sound until she stopped and was jaw dropped by the person whom she saw singing.
Shaking her head and saying “no it cannot be, WHY is he here?” She quickly ran out of the woods, when suddenly the person who was singing came behind her and asked what was wrong. To the persons surprise it was Lorelei, whom he grabbed. Lorelei vexed at the fact he sought out to get her said “Maurizio what are you doing here”
Maurizio spoke only to leave Lorelei with her mouth open. She, at that instance, realized how much she had liked Maurizio . In her mind she was replaying the instances and scenes in which Maurizio and she were together. Telling herself “how could I have missed it? He was always there since the beginning” She then told Maurizio that she would accept to marry him.
Jumping of joy , Maurizio quickly said we will get married as soon as we can. Lorelei quickly went home and told her mother the news, the whole village was soon all getting ready for the news of this.
The next day there was a beautiful wedding in the village of Chaka. Maurizio and Lorelei lived to be forever happy.
n the early days of the rule of Zeus and the other Olympian gods, following on from their success in the Titanomachy, the two Titans, Prometheus and Epimetheus, were charged with creating life forms to inhabit the earth. This task the two brothers completed through the use of clay, and Epimetheus named all of the creatures and gave them individual characteristics. He ran out attributes though by the time he came to mankind. Thus Prometheus went amongst the gods and stole characteristics which he gave to man. He also stole the gift of fire from the workshop of Hephaestus, the blacksmith to the gods. Thus mankind was able to thrive and celebrate a carefree lifestyle.
This act of Prometheus, added to previous misdemeanours angered Zeus, and so he sought out his own form of retribution. This retribution though was not straightforward, and began with Hephaestus creating the first woman out of metal. Zeus then breathed life into her, and the other gods gave her other gifts. Some of the gifts are thought of as being good, with the likes of beauty being given by Aphrodite; persuasiveness by Hermes; as well as intelligence and grace. There were though other gifts that are considered less positive, with Hermes also giving the gifts of cunning and the ability to lie, and Hera provided curiosity. The provision of these gifts resulted in the name of Pandora, being given to the first woman, Pandora meaning "all-gifted".
Once perfected Pandora was then given to Epimetheus to be his wife. Epimetheus, had already been warned by Prometheus about accepting gifts from the gods, but still was a willing recipient of Pandora. This is where the term Pandora's Box commences, and within the household of Epimetheus was a large jar that contained all of the characteristics that Epimetheus had not found a suitable host for when he had been moulding man and beast. Other sources do say that the jar was a wedding gift from Zeus, but no matter where the jar had come from, Pandora was explicitly warned by Zeus, that to remain happily married she was never to look into the jar.
The marriage was a happy one but the curiosity that Hera had instilled in Pandora was slowly taking over. Eventually Pandora could not resist the temptation that was overcoming her, and so she released the jar's lid. At once all of the evil and bad characteristics instilled in it escaped. This meant sickness, suffering, diseases, war, hard labour, jealousy, greed and hatred escaped to make their way into the world. Pandora though tried desperately to close the lid of the jar, but by that time there was only one thing left in it, and that was Hope. With evil in the world, the easy life of mankind was over, and life was now a struggle where there was hard work involved just to survive.
The actions of Pandora, as well as releasing evil into the world, also ultimately caused the destruction of mankind. Some tales tell of how mankind became so evil, and so repulsive to the eye of Zeus, that he sent a flood to wipe out the whole human population. For nine days and nine nights the rain fell and the world was flooded. Zeus though had not totally given up on the world, and gave the task for replenishing the world to Pandora's daughter, Pyrrha, and her cousin, Deucalion, the son of Prometheus. Pyrrha and Deucalion built an ark to save themselves and the animals, and after the floods had subsided repopulated the world by throwing stones from which man and women were born.
The story of Pandora's box may be a story of despair and the release of evil, but it is a story which shows that no matter what the situation there is always hope left.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers-
By Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me