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.
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.