Sand and Stone

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.

THEY SAY
IT TAKES A
MINUTE
TO FIND A SPECIAL
PERSON,
AN
HOUR TO
APPRECIATE
THEM,
A
DAY TO
LOVE THEM,

BUT THEN
AN
ENTIRE LIFE
TO FORGET THEM.