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Following story idea came to my mind on reading Rosemary's blog 7 faces..... Thanks, Rosemary! (Please be noted that I have already written this in brief in a comment of mine on some blog).

The Deeds Reflect!

He was an artist, a painter. His paintings were very much taken by the admirers of the art. He wanted to make a painting which he wished, would break all his previous records. He was thinking about an idea, a topic very unique based on which he would make a remarkable piece of art. While he was planning to have some idea or topic to make his wish a reality, he had a visitor, a lady with a little boy. She wanted him to make the portrait of her son. Her son was very beautiful, all his innocent beauty was reflecting from his blushing face.   His sinless smile was making him an angel in real. The painter got impressed, and an idea was switched on in his mind. He agreed to make the portrait of the boy. He made two paintings of the boy, one for the lady and one for himself, and kept the other one for himself with the permission of the lady against the cost of his services. The lady agreed willingly and left happily with the painting.

Seeing the boy very first time the painter got the idea why would he not make two paintings showing the extremes of two aspects, the extreme beauty and innocence and against this the extreme devilish ugliness. The first part he had already made. He then started to look for the subject which would come up to the level of ugliness as was in his mind the extremely grotesque and appalling character, but he could not find any such character, there were many on earth, as it is natural to exist the ugliness as it exists the beauty, but couldn’t find any such, which came up to his artistic mind. He anyway kept looking for it.

20 years passed and when he was going to leave the idea of extreme beauty and ugliness he came across with a character. He was lying in a corner of a building, very ugly, seemed to be the drug addict, his eyes were blood red, and all the filth was all over him. The artist very hesitatingly got closer to him. The man got alert seeing him getting closer. He stood up. The artist somehow convinced him to understand what he wanted from him and the man agreed to come with him to his studio.

While he was making all the preparation of making his portrait and told him what his idea was for which he had waited for such a long time.

The portrait of ugliness was completed and while the man was ready to leave he asked him whom he chose to reflect the beauty. The artist showed him the portrait of the little boy he made 20 years ago. Seeing the picture of the boy, the man got shocked and started crying. The artist asked him why he was crying seeing the picture. The ugly man turned with eyes full of the tears to leave, saying, “It is me in this picture when I was a boy, but the lashes of the time and the deeds turned me ugly.”