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.”
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