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, 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 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.
