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."
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, value the friends
you have in your life !
"That best portion of
a good man's life? His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness
and of love." William Wordsworth
