Sand or Stone?
A story tells that 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.