Sand and Stone

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 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.

~ unknown

This was sent to me via an email from a friend and i right a way connected to the idea of it. I thought that it was worth sharing with everyone while having a reminder to myself to be forgiving and to carve all the joys in my life in stone

Peace.