Forgiveness and remembrance







Two friends were walking through the desert. After a while 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 moved on until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, slipped, hit his head and unconsciously fell in the water but the friend saved him. After the friend 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 the 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 erase it.”

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