A story tells of two
friends who 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.
Do not value the THINGS
you have in your life. But value WHO you have in your life!
*Copied and pasted from
an email; I am not the author of this piece.
