Sand Or Stone? -
25th September 2001, 02:33 AM
SAND OR STONE?
A story tells that two friends
were walking through the desert.
In a specific 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 anything to
say, he 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 got slapped and hurt started
drowning, and the other friend
saved him. When he recovered from
the fright, he wrote on a stone:
"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE".
The friend who saved and slapped
his best friend, asked him, "Why,
after I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand, and now you write on a stone?"
The other friend, smiling,
replied: "When a friend hurts us,
we should write it down in the
sand, where the winds of
forgiveness get in charge of
erasing it away, and when
something great happens, we
should engrave it in the stone of
the memory of the heart, where no
wind can erase it"
Friends forever....
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