The King and the Witch

There was a king who loved his people too much. One day, a witch came. She poisoned the well so that the people went mad. To sympathize with them, the king drank from the well too. Then he was mad like them.

This was a story I heard during my first years abroad. I lived there long enough to know the habit well. The people are all mad. If I should accept them, I would be mad like them. Instead, I lose my mind or try to with wine.  But actually I am still clear minded. And sane.