| brownstone |
Posted
on 25-Feb-04 07:34 PM
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 slapped 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."
>
> They say it takes a minute to find a special
> person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love
> them, and a
> lifetime to forget them.
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