Two
Friends
A story tells that two
friends were walking through the Desert. During some point of the
journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in
the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything,
wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to
take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and
started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the
near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY
LIFE."
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend
asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and
now, you write on a stone, why?" The other friend
replied: "When someone
hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can
erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must
engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND
AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN
STONE
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