The Missing Part

Long, long, long ago, on Mt. Olympus, where the Gods and Goddesses live, it wasn't a very pleasant place. It was dull, gloomy, pale, and sad, peoples' faces never had a smile on. No one cared for each other. Alpan, a young soon-to-be goddess at the time, one day asked her mother "What is missing in our world? Why is everyone dull and sad?" Her mother did not yet know the answer to this, so she replied in an innocent tone "No one knows. People have been studying that for years and years before my time, thus no one concluded why. …