Sand and Stone
A story tells that two friends were walking through the dessert,
at a specific point of the journey, they had an argument, and one of them slapped
the other one in the face. The one, who got slapped, was hurt but without anything
to say he 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 got slapped and hurt started drowning and the other friend saved
him. When he recovered from the fright, he wrote on a stone: "Today
my best friend saved my life."
The friend who saved and slapped his best friend asked
him, "Why after I hurt
you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone?"
The other friend,
smiling, replied: "When a friend hurts us, we should write
it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing
it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone
of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it."
Learn to write in
the sand.
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
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