#012 THE SAND AND THE STONE
Two friends were walking through the desert. They had an argument; and one friend slapped the other 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. The friend saved him. After he recovered, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. The friend who had slapped and saved asked, "After I hurt you, you wrote in sand. Then you wrote on a stone when I saved you. Why?" He replies, "When someone hurts us we should write it in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. 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 sand and carve your benefits in stone. It's said it takes a minute to find a special person, an ...