There
were two friends. They had an argument one day, and one of them slapped the
other one in the face. The latter felt pain but he chose not to say anything.
Instead, he wrote on sand, “Today my best friend has slapped me in my face.”
They kept
going until they found an oasis where they decided to bathe. The one who had
been slapped in the face, almost sank, and his friend rescued him. As soon as
he came around, he wrote on a rock, “Today my best friend has rescued my life.”
The other
friend asked him:
— When I
offended you, you wrote it on sand, and now you write on a rock. Why?
The guy
replied:
— When
someone hurts us, we should write it on sand so that winds could wash it away.
However, when someone does anything good, we should cut it in stone so that no
wind could wash it away.
Teach
yourself to write your offences on sand and cut your joys in stone.
Prepared
by The Catalog of Good Deeds
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