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 T HE SAND

AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS
IN STONE.