Two friends were walking through the desert. During 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."
The kept on walking, until the 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 in down in sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we muct 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.
12 comments:
Beautiful words, Sylvia. How true!
good thoughts to remember and live by
I think that is absolutely true!
What a nice thought. It finds me on a night fraught with regrets; perhaps I'll write them in the snow.
Lovely rose image and the words are beautiful sentiments!
So true and words we should all live by.
A lovely way of telling a truth. May I turn it into a poem one day?
how true! well said! love the yellow rose depicting friendship too!
thank you so much for all those butterflies flitting around on my blog!!!! they add so much color and character!!
Stumbled across your blog yesterday and I'm really enjoying it!! Thanks for the inspiration and gorgeous pictures. Will be visitn g more often!!!
Oh my... This is a valuable lesson, indeed.
I had seen this one in an email. It impressed me then, and now again!
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